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Revolutionize   /rˌɛvəlˈuʃənˌaɪz/   Listen
Revolutionize

verb
(past & past part. revolutioniezed; pres. part. revolutionizing)
1.
Change radically.  Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise.
2.
Overthrow by a revolution, of governments.
3.
Fill with revolutionary ideas.  Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise.






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"Revolutionize" Quotes from Famous Books



... operations as are destructive to the child, in favor of an operation that saves it, and subjects the mother to little more risk. The operation of Cesarean section, or the Porro amputation of the pregnant womb, will revolutionize the obstetric art, and in two years we shall hear no more of craniotomy; for the improved method will save more lives, and is far easier of performance. It is the easiest operation in abdominal surgery, and every country practitioner ought to be able, and always prepared, to do it.' So said ...
— Moral Principles and Medical Practice - The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence • Charles Coppens

... volcanic debris, an amount of gold and silver exceeding many times that brought to Europe from Peru, Mexico, and Central America since the time of Columbus; a treasure which, if brought to light, would revolutionize the ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... to supplant the Bible in Sabbath Schools in some parts of our country! What next? This is an age of wonders and humbugs. For aught we know, Jo. Smith's Bible, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the spiritual rappers, may yet revolutionize our world. It is, however, difficult to tell, what is in the womb of the future; for many new wonders and marvelous revelations may yet spring up in the land of Yankeedom! Nothing is too hard for them. The word impossible, has ...
— A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin - or, An Essay on Slavery • A. Woodward

... own intense interests, now and then. Clean-Up Day was past but its effect in Poketown was ineradicable. Janice was satisfied that there were enough people finally awake in the town to surely, if slowly, revolutionize the place. ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

... between the German powers had at least the effect of preventing the formation of a coalition of nations against them by the French. Had the alliance between the sovereigns continued, the French would, from political motives, have used their utmost endeavors to revolutionize Germany; this project was rendered needless by the treaty of Basel, which broke up the coalition and confirmed France in the undisturbed possession of her liberties; and thus it happened that Prussia unwittingly aided the monarchical cause by involuntarily preventing ...
— Germany from the Earliest Period Vol. 4 • Wolfgang Menzel, Trans. Mrs. George Horrocks


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