revamp

1 to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it"

2 provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots" [syn: vamp]

English

Etymology

re- + vamp (in the sense of applying a vamp to)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmp

Verb

1. to renovate, revise, improve or renew; to patch

   They plan to revamp the historical theater in the old downtown.

Translations

Vamp may refer to:

• VaMP, the first autonomous car that drove long distances in traffic
• Vamp (band), a Norwegian folk music band
• Vamp (character), in the Metal Gear series of games.
• Vamp (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Vamp (film) (1986), a movie starring Grace Jones
• Vamp (music), a repeating musical figure or accompaniment
• Vamp (telenovela), a Brazilian mystic dramedy.
• VAMP (VMS, Apache, MySQL, PHP), a variation of LAMP (software bundle)
• VAMP Research Databank, former name of the General Practice Research Database
• Vamp!, a light novel series by Ryohgo Narita
• Vesicle-associated membrane protein, a family of proteins

Vamp may also refer to:

• a type of femme fatale
• the upper part of a shoe
• Revamp, informal term for maintenance, repair and operations
• Revamp, informal term for editing of natural-language text

See also

• Vampire (disambiguation)

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