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 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 The series — which renovates spaces for millennial families — blends Jazz’s eye for design, Jake’s woodworking skills and their joint love for cooking. — Emily Weaver, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for renovates
  1. repairs
  2. rebuilds
  3. reconstructs
  4. fixes
Verb
  • Your skin also repairs itself overnight, so applying moisturizer after an evening shower can support your skin health by helping seal in moisture and keeping your skin hydrated, Chacon added.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 22 July 2026
  • Amazon shoppers are fixing this common plight with the Ohora Natural Glow Milk Syrup Nail Strengthener, a K-Beauty find that repairs brittle, split, and peeling nails.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 17 July 2026
Definition of repairs
Verb
  • When a system rebuilds a schedule or reroutes a workflow overnight, the executive who owns that outcome needs to see what moved and why.
    — Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Soros network rebuilds progressive prosecutor push after string of election losses.
    — , FOXNews.com, 28 July 2026
Definition of rebuilds
Verb
  • In Catch the Devil, Pamela Colloff reconstructs Skalnik’s decades-long path of destruction in vivid detail, catching up with him in federal prison when his luck had run out.
    — Maggie Turner, Air Mail, 25 July 2026
  • The brain compares the relative signal strength across these three channels and reconstructs something on the order of a million distinguishable colors.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of reconstructs
Verb
  • But none of that fixes the company unless the board can explain what Fiserv should own, who should run it, and where shareholder capital will earn the best return.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The patch fixes security vulnerabilities in Win32K, NTFS, Remote Desktop, Hyper-V, Secure Boot, Print Spooler, Media Foundation, the Windows installer, and the Windows kernel itself, among others.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 15 July 2026
Definition of fixes

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