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verb 
  1. To make new again; to restore to freshness, perfection, or vigor; to give new life to; to rejuvenate; to restablish; to recreate; to rebuild.
In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did old son. -Shak.
  1. Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent.
  2. To begin again; to recommence.
The last great age . . . renews its finished course. -Dryden.
  1. To repeat; to go over again.
The birds-their notes . -Milton.
  1. (theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate.
Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom. xii. 2.
  1. (intransitive) To become new, or as new; to grow or begin again.
Translations: 
  • German: erneuern
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, To begin again; to recommence)
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, To repeat; to go over again)
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, To make new spiritually; to regenerate)
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, (intransitive) To become new, or as new)
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom)
  • Spanish: reanudar
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, To substitute for a new one of the same nature)
Etymology: Prefix re- + new. Confer. Renovate.


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