1. To reconsider and modify text, a plan or an interpretation in light of a purpose or new information.
2. To study material again, especially in preparation for an examination.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- revise a draft
- revise an interpretation
On the page
The author revised the draft to separate the narrator’s opinion from the documented event.
The historian revised the interpretation after checking the earlier correspondence.
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Related words
Word forms
- Base
- revise
- Past tense
- revised
- Past participle
- revised
- Present participle
- revising
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- revise
- Present continuous
- am/is/are revising
- Present perfect
- have/has revised
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been revising
- Past
- revised
- Past continuous
- was/were revising
- Past perfect
- had revised
- Past perfect continuous
- had been revising
- Future
- will revise
- Future continuous
- will be revising
- Future perfect
- will have revised
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been revising
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: revise; revises; revised; revised; revising Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: narrative transformation, conception and possibility, memory representation, anticipatory detail. Disciplines: literary writing, advanced general English, narrative analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: revises.
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