Synonym: alter, amend, change, correct, improve, rewrite. Similar words: revision, devise, revisionist, review, revive, peevish, brevity, revived. Meaning: [rɪ'vaɪz] n. the act of rewriting something. v. 1. make revisions in 2. revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving.
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(31) There was a rustle of a sigh from the audience and I began to revise my opinion of her likely commercial success.
(32) The writer is also encouraged to revise and re-word any subheading to fit his own sense of appropriateness and writing style.
(33) The study also prompted the U. S. Department of Agriculture to revise and shorten its recommended roasting times.
(34) Identify them, then revise the paragraph using different options. 1.
(35) The government has said it will revise down its initial 2. 8 percent growth target in coming weeks.
(36) Naturally the overseas extensions of the Anglican way of life were interested to revise their own prayer books.
(37) Candidates can not revise their own historic record with the same impunity before a population that has power to retrieve the past.
(38) For them the demand to draft or revise a long story would be wholly inappropriate.
(39) Time to recall the smallest moment, time to revise your story, time to change your mind.
(40) Filner insisted yesterday that the federal letter of clarification has solved the problem, and state legislators will revise state law.
(41) He gave his work to his friend to revise, because he found it hard to see his own mistakes.
(42) Egalitarian feminist psychologists often revise psychological methods,[sentencedict.com/revise.html] but they reject the possibility that feminist psychology needs a specifically woman-centred method.
(43) But he had cause to revise his opinion a moment later when they opened the door and went in.
(44) The fact that he appeared to revise his views between 1885 and 1914 is not necessarily important.
(45) But it took five years of intense work to write the standards, circulate them for review, and then revise them.
(46) They had to revise everything on worldwide currencies, capitals, flags, rivers, national monuments etc.
(47) A writer like Sylvia Lopez-Medina attempts to revise the culture of machismo toward her own ends.
(48) Chances are you can revise right there-tweaking a word, cutting a sentence, adding a slice of information.
(49) Even young writers decide on form and genre; they write and revise for clarity and for grace.
(50) He also agreed to revise training operations to quell noise that Okinawans have complained about for years.
(51) This will heighten your awareness of little-word buildup, and help you revise quickly.
(52) One way to do this is to encourage children to reread and revise their initial drafts.
(53) You may find it useful to revise microbiology, the modes of spread of infection and methods of sterilization.
(54) The chances are that he will see his inconsistency and revise his moral views, either exonerating Smith or condemning himself.
(55) No need to revise our predictions yet, on that score.
(56) They are intended to be used to consolidate or to revise language which has already been presented in other ways.
(57) But weak economic performance, supporters said, is precisely why Kim has pushed so hard to revise the labor law.
(58) Perhaps pressure from his local boss or party secretary would revise the awkward customer's views in an acceptable direction.
(59) We believe it is vital that the Secretary of State is persuaded to revise his plans.
(60) On this basis we may stress the need to revise language teaching methods to come more in line with second language acquisition.
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