noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An act of improving, renewing, renovating, or revising something; an improvement, renovation, revamping, or revision.

   "a revamp of a website"

Verb

1. 1
   To improve, renew, renovate, or revise (something). transitive

   "They plan to revamp the historical theater in the old downtown."

2. 2
   to patch up or renovate; repair or restore wordnet
3. 3
   provide (a shoe) with a new vamp wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

amelioratevampaccommodateadaptadjustalter

Antonyms

All antonyms

debuffdeterioratenerf

Example

More examples

"Keep the estate, but revamp the house!"

Etymology

The verb is derived from re- (prefix meaning ‘again, anew’) + vamp (“to patch, repair, or refurbish”). The noun is derived from the verb.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.