I Revised Revise Rɪˈvaɪz Opinions Plan Edition Revising

• i can see i will have to revise my opinions of his abilities now.
• the government may need to revise its policy in the light of this report.
• i realised that i would have to revise my life plan.
• a revised edition of a textbook

revise

Verb Forms

1. to change your opinions or plans, for example because of something you have learned
• I can see I will have to revise my opinions of his abilities now.
• The government may need to revise its policy in the light of this report.
• I realised that I would have to revise my life plan.
2. to change something, such as a book or an estimate, in order to correct or improve it
• a revised edition of a textbook
• I'll prepare a revised estimate for you.
• This revised version of his play has only two acts.
• They should create a revised marketing plan.
• We may have to revise this figure upwards.
• The growth forecast has been revised down.
• Of the original 200, that was revised to 100, only about 50 people showed up.

Extra Examples

• Sales forecasts will have to be revised downwards/downward.
• The estimate for the building work had to be revised upwards.
• The figure has now been revised from $1 million to $2 million.
• The text has been quite radically revised.
• Have you got the revised edition of this textbook?
• The procedures are continually revised—it is very difficult to keep up with the latest version.
3. to prepare for an exam by looking again at work that you have done
• I can't come out tonight. I have to revise.
• I spent the weekend revising for my exam.
• I'm revising Geography today.

Extra Examples

• I can't come out tonight—I'm revising.
• She's revising for her exams at the moment.
• Have you revised geography yet?

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’): from French réviser ‘look at’, or Latin revisere ‘look at again’, from re- ‘again’ + visere (intensive form of videre ‘to see’).