| 单词 | revolutionize |
| 释义 | revolutionize (once / 3596 pages) v Revolutionize, a verb, means "to make a major change," like in the 1990s, when the Internet revolutionized how people communicated, got information and even did their jobs. Things were never the same again. Use revolutionize to describe something that is completely transformed. Originally, it meant "to bring about sweeping political change," like people who band together and fight to revolutionize a nation, with the end result being a new party in power or new philosophies about things like land ownership or tax collection put in place. In time, it also came to mean even nonpolitical change, like the digital music player, which revolutionized how people get and listen to music. WORD FAMILYrevolutionize: revolutionized, revolutionizes, revolutionizing+/counterrevolution: counterrevolutionary, counterrevolutionist, counterrevolutions/counterrevolutionary: counterrevolutionaries/revolt: revolted, revolting, revolts, revolution/revolting: revoltingly/revolution: counterrevolution, revolutionary, revolutionise, revolutionism, revolutionize, revolutions/revolutionary: revolutionaries, revolutionarily/revolutionise: revolutionised, revolutionises, revolutionising/revolutionism: revolutionisms, revolutionist/revolutionist: revolutionists USAGE EXAMPLES“I don’t believe tape will revolutionize the TV industry,” declared ABC’s chief engineer. Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) One wonders if Star Shower, like the iPhone, will revolutionize and disrupt an entire industry — in this case, the Christmas industrial complex. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) The new identity announced Tuesday marks another step in an effort to revolutionize the way people get around. Seattle Times(Dec 13, 2016) 1v change radically E-mail revolutionized communication in academe Syn|Hyper overturn, revolutionise alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v overthrow by a revolution, of governments Hyper bring down, overthrow, overturn, subvert cause the downfall of; of rulers 3v fill with revolutionary ideas Syn|Hyper inspire, revolutionise indoctrinate teach doctrines to; teach uncritically |
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