renovates

verb

present tense third-person singular of renovate
as in repairs
to put into good shape or working order again will have to renovate the house extensively before we can move in

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Recent Examples of renovates One other bonus is that West Shore Home also installs flooring/doors and renovates bathrooms. — Jason Rueger, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Hartford resident Annette Gaynor, the owner of a business that renovates housing, has lived in the city for four decades, now owning a two-family house in the Blue Hills neighborhood. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026 The organization now also renovates multi-bedroom homes for families experiencing homelessness. — Meg Dunn, CNN Money, 10 July 2026 Brooke touches upon the topic with her partner on the show, HGTV's Scott McGillivray, while the pair renovates different spaces in a Las Vegas home as part of the competition. — Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026 Nazuna For a smaller-scale option, check out Nazuna, which renovates traditional homes and runs them as small ryokan (traditional inns) or private villas. — Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2026 Murphy plans to expand the menu as the former Test Kitchen space renovates through the first half of 2026. — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 Feb. 2026 The company installs, renovates, maintains, repairs and replaces heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing, electrical, monitoring, fire protection and other systems. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026 Camping World Stadium will be their home in 2027 while Jacksonville renovates EverBank Field. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renovates
  1. repairs
  2. rebuilds
  3. reconstructs
  4. fixes
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  • Courtesy of Fleet Feet Like any muscle, a healthy heart suffers damage and repairs itself each time it is stressed.
    — Matt Moret, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Simpson was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, a rare congenital heart condition where the heart repairs damage with tissue that doesn't properly conduct electricity in the right ventricle.
    — Errol Barnett, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of repairs
Verb
  • Something as simple as moving a UI element a few pixels to the right, for instance, requires a full prompt and a roughly minute-long wait as the AI completely rebuilds the app.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Just as training breaks down muscle tissue that rebuilds through nutrition and rest, adaptation requires recovery.
    — Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of rebuilds
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  • The scientists’ method reconstructs genealogies, or maps showing where different pieces of DNA came from and how they were passed down, revealing branches of our evolutionary past.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Meyer reconstructs the bureaucratic and financial machinery behind the rescues, one of his book’s genuinely valuable contributions.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of reconstructs
Verb
  • The next time someone on your team fixes a mistake the AI made, ask where that fix goes.
    — Vincent Chen, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The algorithm first fixes both cameras on a 3D point and determines the geometric relationship between the resulting images.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of fixes

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“Renovates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/renovates. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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