All 3 Uses of
revolution
in
Black: The Birth of Evil
- Dubbed the Raison Vaccine, the vaccine promises to revolutionize preventive medicine.†
Chpt 8 *revolutionize = create dramatic changestandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" in revolutionize means to make. This is the same pattern you see in words like alphabetize, legalize, and vocalize.
- But the fact that he'd actually twisted through a full revolution in the air stopped him cold.†
Chpt 16
- American Revolution: British forces expose civilians to smallpox in Quebec and Boston.†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(revolution as in: the computer revolution) dramatic change -- sometimes violent overthrow of a government
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(2)
(revolution as in: revolution around the sun) circular movement -- sometimes referring to exactly one rotation