All 10 Uses
revise
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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- It was quite a popular decision, but Barb Wiggin looked at Owen as if she were revising her opinion of how "cute" he was, and the rector observed Owen with a detachment that was wholly out of character for an ex-pilot.†
p. 169.2revising = changing
- Having revised the Holy Nativity, he had moved on; he was reinterpreting Dickens—for even Dan had to admit that Owen had somehow changed A Christmas Carol.†
p. 205.6revised = changed
- How the congregation straggled out of the nave; how they hated to have their rituals revised without warning.†
p. 231.1 *
- "No one killed her," Germaine said; a certain mystical detachment flooded her eyes and caused her to slightly revise her statement.†
p. 251.9revise = change
- Liberace had revised his former opposition to homosexuality.†
p. 271.8revised = changed
- In the old King James version, it was called a "sepulchre"; in the Revised Standard version, it is just a "tomb."†
p. 286.6
- JUST TELL THE FACULTY AND THE HEADMASTER THAT THE VOICE IS BUSY—REVISING HIS VALEDICTORY!†
p. 387.6revising = changing
- To quote The Toronto Daily Star: "Unless the young Americans for whom AMEX speaks revise their priorities and put Number Five first, they risk arousing a growing hostility and suspicion among Canadians."†
p. 464.2revise = change
- He had revised a few of his earlier views of our Vietnam policy.†
p. 508.9revised = changed
- If it took them four or five pages to find the right beginning, didn't they think they should consider revising their papers and beginning them on page four or five?†
p. 558.4revising = changing
Definitions:
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(1)
(revise) to change (and hopefully improve) -- most frequently to improve a written document, but it can be any intentional change such as a change in an estimated amount, a plan, or a series of procedures
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In the UK, revise can also mean to review material previously studied to prepare for a test.