to renew
- verb
- /rɪˈnuː/
- Today the United States renews our deep bond with Britain, military, financial, cultural and political.
- renewed interest
- renewed commitment
- renewed emphasis
It's it's an opportunity to recall, reflect, and hopefully renew as well.
- It's it's an opportunity to recall, reflect, and hopefully renew as well.
- I mean since you were asking, renew your faith.
- What we can be depends fundamentally on the spaces we create, renew, and inhabit.
- So Brighton resurface, renew, tighten, equalise and defend with one single product.
- They've made the gauge of the railways unique, so when you renew your stock, you have to go back to China.
- So he goes on, and he says this enemy, if we try to defeat it, renews himself in his defeat.
- So stem cells are needed for cell renewal as well as body renewal, tissue healing, wound healing, degenerative changes to actually renew.
Examples
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We can renew our vows, babe.
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Maybe it's time for you to renew your faith.
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For, I have renewed life purpose in the form of a research project with which I need your help.
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Years of effort are paying off in renewed hope for the species' survival.
Academic text (1999) -
Recently, the historical study of immigration law has received renewed interest from legal and immigration scholars alike.
Academic text (1999) -
The effect of their joining the alliance is felt in a renewed dedication to promoting and protecting democracy.
Academic text (2008) -
A media-literate public also calls for a renewed commitment of journalists to their established code of ethics.
Academic text (2011) -
In this article, we report one effort to evaluate the efficacy of a renewed teacher preparation program.
Academic text (2008) -
The recent transition in Iraq prompted a renewed state focus on deploying personnel.
Academic text (2013) -
After a long winter, the gardener was eager to renew the flower beds with fresh plants.
Synonyms
Make someone feel healthy and full of energy again
Make something active or popular again after a time of being forgotten
To make something again in a new or better way
Make someone or something feel full of energy and less tired
Do something again to fix mistakes or make it better
To give new life and energy to something
Bring something back into use after it was forgotten
To bring back something that stopped or was lost
Make a feeling or interest strong again
To give new energy and interest to a person or thing
Form something again after it has been destroyed or changed
To make an interest, feeling, or activity start again after it stopped
To make someone or something feel fresh and full of energy
To start something again after it stops or after you change it
To start giving time and effort to something again with new commitment
Bring something back to a better or original state
To start again a rule or practice that stopped
Begin being involved again after a break
To start a process or system again after it stopped
Make land or rivers look younger and have stronger water flow
To make something feel new and alive again
To make someone feel excited and ready to try new things
Make something active again, for example the economy or your interest
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Etymology
Renew comes from the Latin parts re- 'again' and novus 'new', so it literally means 'make new again'. Think of two friends meeting after years apart and making their friendship feel 'new'—that's why to renew something is to make it fresh or start it again.