revise
verb
[ rɪˈvʌɪz ]
• examine and make corrections or alterations to (written or printed matter).
• "the book was published in 1960 and revised in 1968"
Similar:
amend,
emend,
correct,
alter,
change,
adapt,
edit,
copy-edit,
rewrite,
redraft,
rescript,
recast,
rephrase,
rework,
update,
revamp,
• reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination.
• "students frantically revising for exams"
Similar:
go over,
reread,
run through,
study,
memorize,
cram,
bone up on,
swot up (on),
mug up (on),
swot,
revise
noun
• a proof including corrections made in an earlier proof.
• "I handed in the revises this morning"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’): from French réviser ‘look at’, or Latin revisere ‘look at again’, from re- ‘again’ + visere (intensive form of videre ‘to see’).
