Definizione monolingua

renew

renew (third-person singular simple present renews, present participle renewing, simple past and past participle renewed)

1. (transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. [from 14th c.]
   • c.1596-98, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene i,

     In such a night / Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs / That did renew old AEson.

2. (transitive) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. [from 14th c.]
3. (theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate. [from 14th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, Bible (Tyndale), Romans 12:2,

     And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is.

4. (now rare, intransitive) To become new, or as new; to revive. [15th-18th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy[1], II.2.6.ii,

     ... to such as are in fear they strike a great impression, renew[ed] many times, and recal such chimeras and terrible fictions into their minds.

   • 1997,, “Seeking Christian interiority: An interview with Louis Dupre”, Christian Century, volume 114, number 21, page 654:?

     But Christianity was a new religious force in Augustines day. Today, as you say, its power to integrate culture has all but disappeared. Does Christianity still have the capacity to renew ?

   • 2010 September, Michael Allen, ""St. Louis Preservation Fund"", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 74,

     Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.

5. (transitive) To begin again; to recommence. [from 16th c.]
   • 1660, Virgil, John Dryden (translator), (apparently from Eclogue 4), a snippet of translation used to introduce Drydens Astræa Redux: A poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty Charles II., 1660,

     The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, / Renews its finished course ; Saturnian times / Roll round again.

6. (rare) To repeat. [from 17th c.]
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost,

     The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds / Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.

Definizione dizionario renew

	rinnovare
	Modificare la condizione implicando un miglioramento.

aggiustare

allungare

cambiare

continuare

riallacciare

riparare

riprendere

ripristinare

Altri significati:

(transitive) To begin again; to recommence. [from 16th c.]

(transitive) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. [from 14th c.]

To replace something old with something new of the same type.

to substitute for a new one of the same nature

(Discuss <sup>(+)</sup> this sense) (obsolete, intransitive) To become new, or as new; to revive. [15th-18th c.]

to make new again

(rare) To repeat. [from 17th c.]

(transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. [from 14th c.]

(theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate. [from 14th c.]