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1. Restore to a previous or better condition
   "They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel";
   - restitute
    
2. Redecorate and brighten up to make nicer for inhabiting and/or use
   "My wife wants us to renovate";
   - refurbish, freshen up
    
3. Give new life or energy to
   "This will renovate my spirits";
   - animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

Derived forms: renovated, renovates, renovating

Type of: arouse, brace, energise [Brit], energize, perk up, regenerate, renew, stimulate

Encyclopedia: Renovate