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  • She hired contractors to renovate the place, and found new tenants.†  (source)
    renovate = improve (something that had deteriorated)
  • "And I'm gon' figure something out to do about the store till I get it renovated," says Daddy.†  (source)
    renovated = improved (something that had deteriorated)
  • The storefront mission had been renovated and expanded with the money from the inheritance.†  (source)
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  • At the beginning of the eighties, there was a large-scale renovation.†  (source)
    renovation = improvement (of something that had deteriorated)
    standard suffix: 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.
  • Recently, Tariq took Laila and the children to the Gardens of Babur, which are being renovated.†  (source)
    renovated = improved (something that had deteriorated)
  • There was a large dumpster standing in the driveway, full of shattered wood, slabs of plaster: renovations were going on.†  (source)
  • The town council had decided that it would cost too much to renovate it, a little chapel in an overgrown graveyard that had already become unfashionable, so they had padlocked it, and waited for it to fall down.†  (source)
    renovate = improve (something that had deteriorated)
  • 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.†  (source)
    renovating = improving (something that had deteriorated)
  • Renovators have sandblasted away the alligators that graced the entrance.†  (source)
  • There's a small design firm here that renovates old structures.†  (source)
    renovates = improves (something that had deteriorated)
  • Even an unrenovated one.†  (source)
    unrenovated = not improved
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrenovated means not and reverses the meaning of renovated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The family computer was in the old part of the house, what had been the front room before the renovation.†  (source)
    renovation = improvement (of something that had deteriorated)
  • Constructed in the 1920s, the building was renovated into a cavernous courthouse in the 1940s, complete with marble floors and an impressive domed ceiling.†  (source)
    renovated = improved (something that had deteriorated)
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