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1. Make revisions in
   "revise a thesis"
    
2. Reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving
   "We must revise the town's economy"
   - retool
    
3. [Brit] Refresh one's memory
   - review, brush up, refresh
    
4. [Brit] Study intensively, as before an exam
   - cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot [Brit], get up, mug up [Brit], swot up [Brit], bone

1. The act of rewriting something
   - revision, revisal, rescript
    
2. (printing) a proof including earlier corrections

Derived forms: revised, revising, revises

See also: reviser, revising, revision

Type of: call back, call up, hit the books, recall, recollect, remember, reorganise [Brit], reorganize, retrieve, revising, rewrite, rewriting, shake up, study, think

Encyclopedia: Revise