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to improve something that had deteriorated — especially a building

Anis, one of Kabul's newspapers, had run a story the month before on the renovation of the orphanage.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

He and his wife had split up around the time Eric and I did, but he had consoled himself by buying and renovating a wreck of a town house in Brooklyn.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
One of the wounded vets I met at the ranch retreats has an idea to help homeless vets by helping build or renovate housing.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
Salander guessed that the renovation work had been stopped abruptly.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

The storefront mission had been renovated and expanded with the money from the inheritance.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
But I would imagine Valentine, Blackwell, and the others had the place renovated to be a bit more to their taste.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
True, it was more renovation than construction, but the blacks were free, or so it was said, to occupy it.
Toni Morrison -- Sula

The area was in the process of renovation; however, like similar projects in urban blights the world over, the progress had two speeds: slow and stop.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

The house hadn't been renovated since the 1940s, and it still had cheap wood-veneer paneling and old smelly, worn-out lime-green carpeting.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
This was believed to be a crypt but was revealed as nothing of the sort during the 1950 renovation.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

Until the renovation, it had felt more like her parents' house, a feeling that didn't sit well with her as she'd gotten older.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me

[2] Pistoia first strips itself of the Black, then Florence renovates her people and her customs.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
And all other reform and renovation, I suppose, will prove to be no better than moonshine!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

Pick the courses shrewdly and work quickly and the most tawdry academic record could be renovated in a single summer.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
And she loves any excuse to renovate.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
I'll be back in a couple of days, hopefully with a good progress report of the renovation.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever

It was also desperately in need of renovation.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride

Adam sat down, and they remained opposite to each other in uneasy silence, while Arthur slowly drank brandy-and-water, with visibly renovating effect.
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
I'm renovating new headquarters right now down by the river.
Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
The Pentagon had started a long renovation of the then nearly sixty-year-old building back in the late 1990s.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day

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