renovate

renovate
    v 1: restore to a previous or better condition; "They renovated
         the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel" [syn: {renovate},
         {restitute}]
    2: make brighter and prettier; "we refurbished the guest wing";
       "My wife wants us to renovate" [syn: {refurbish}, {renovate},
       {freshen up}]
    3: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
       "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
       health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {reanimate}, {revive},
       {renovate}, {repair}, {quicken}, {vivify}, {revivify}]
    

Renovate \Ren"o*vate\ (r?n"?-v?t), v. t. [L. renovatus, p. p. of
   renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new.
   See {New}, and ?? {Renew}.]
   To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to
   renew.
   [1913 Webster]

         All nature feels the reniovating force
         Of winter.                               --Thomson.
   [1913 Webster]
    

95 Moby Thesaurus words for "renovate":
      brighten up, brush up, clean, cleanse, coin, copy, do over, do up,
      duplicate, face-lift, fix, fix up, freshen, furbish, furbish up,
      get back, inaugurate, innovate, invent, make over, mint, modernize,
      neologize, neoterize, overhaul, patch up, polish, polish up,
      ransom, re-create, re-form, reactivate, rebuild, recapture,
      reclaim, recondition, reconstitute, reconstruct, recoup, recover,
      recuperate, redecorate, redeem, redesign, redo, reestablish,
      refashion, refit, refound, refresh, refurbish, regain, regenerate,
      rehabilitate, reinstitute, reissue, rejuvenate, rekindle, remake,
      remodel, renew, reoccupy, reorganize, repair, repeat, replevin,
      replevy, repossess, reprint, reproduce, reshape, restore,
      restructure, resume, resurrect, resuscitate, retake, retouch,
      retrieve, revamp, revindicate, revise, revitalize, revive,
      revivify, rub up, shine, spruce, spruce up, take back, tone up,
      touch up, update, vamp, vamp up