revolutionise

verbB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,761 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: revolutionised, revolutionising

To revolutionise is to change something completely and for good. Revolutionise the industry, revolutionised farming, it will revolutionise medicine.

The claim is enormous and it is made constantly in advertising, which has worn it thin — genuinely revolutionising something is rare and usually recognised only afterwards. This is the British spelling; American writing uses a z.

Definitions of revolutionise

1verbrevolutioniseTo change something completely and for good.B2+
“The printing press revolutionised the way knowledge spread across Europe.”

revolutionise is a transforming.

Also accepted in games: revolutionize

Where it comes from

Latin
revolūtiō — the act of revolving; revolution
Old French
revolucion
Middle English
revolucion
English
revolution
English, today
revolutionise

From revolution + -ise. revolution Middle English revolucion, borrowed from Old French revolucion, from Latin revolūtiō (“the act of revolving; revolution”), from Latin revolvō (“roll back, revolve”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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revolutionise in the wild

Clarke in the 1940s as a way to revolutionise telecommunications, and the first satellite to be placed in this kind of orbit was launched in 1963.
Geostationary orbit
NATM/SEM is generally thought to have helped revolutionise the modern tunneling industry.
New Austrian tunneling method
John Tojeiro, affectionately known as Toj, was an engineer and racing car designer whose innovations helped to revolutionise car design in the 1950s and 1960s.
John Tojeiro
Cottam is the author of Radical Help: how we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the Welfare State.
Hilary Cottam
The introduction of colonial goods can revolutionise consumer habits.
Colonial goods

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the revolūtiō family

revolution

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