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Revamping
- verb - provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots"
- to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it"
Revealing
- verb - disclose
- disclose directly or through prophets; "God rarely reveal his plans for Mankind"
- disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down"
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret;
- make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her"
- showing or making known; "her dress was scanty and revealing"
- Surface either side of an opening in a wall such as a doorway or window.
- the speech act of making something evident
Revelling
- verb - celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"
- take delight in; "he delights in his granddaughter"
Revenging
- verb - take revenge for a perceived wrong; "He wants to avenge the murder of his brother"
Reversing
- verb - cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
- change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb"
- rule against; "The Republicans were overruled when the House voted on the bill"
- turn inside out or upside down
Reverting
- verb - a failure to maintain a higher state
- go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules"
- tending to return to an earlier state
- undergo reversion, as in a mutation
Revetting
- verb - construct a revetment
- face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain; "face an embankment"
Reviewing
- verb - appraise critically; "She reviews books for the New York Times"; "Please critique this performance"
- hold a review (of troops)
- look at again; examine again; "let's review your situation"
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember; "she reviewed her achievements with pride"
- refresh one's memory; "I reviewed the material before the test"
Revolting
- verb - cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"
- fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
- make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again"
Revolving
- verb - cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis; "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
- move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
- turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"