Revised I Revise Rɪˈvaɪz Prepare Estimate Revising Opinions

• 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.
• a revised edition of a textbook
• i'll prepare a revised estimate for you.

revise

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.
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.
• We may have to revise this figure upwards.
3. to prepare for an exam by looking again at work that you have done
• I spent the weekend revising for my exam.
• I can't come out tonight. I have to revise.
• I'm revising Geography today.

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 procedures are continually revised—it is very difficult to keep up with the latest version.
• The text has been quite radically revised.
• Have you got the revised edition of this textbook?
• Have you revised geography yet?
• I can’t come out tonight—I’m revising.
• I’ll prepare a revised estimate for you.
• She’s revising for her exams at the moment.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they revise
• he / she / it revises
• past simple revised
• past participle revised
• -ing form revising

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’).