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{
"term": "revise",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "revise",
"heSheIt": "revises"
},
"pastSimple": "revised",
"pastParticiple": "revised",
"ingForm": "revising"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to change your opinions or plans, for example because of something you have learned",
"sensetop": "revise something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I can see I will have to revise my opinions of his abilities now."
},
{
"text": "The government may need to revise its policy in the light of this report."
},
{
"text": "I realised that I would have to revise my life plan."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["drastically", "extensively", "heavily"],
"verb + revise": ["be forced to", "have to", "be necessary to"],
"preposition": ["from", "to", "for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to change something, such as a book or an estimate, in order to correct or improve it",
"sensetop": "revise somethingrevise something up/downrevise something (from something) (to something)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a revised edition of a textbook"
},
{
"text": "I'll prepare a revised estimate for you."
},
{
"text": "This revised version of his play has only two acts."
},
{
"text": "They should create a revised marketing plan."
},
{
"text": "We may have to revise this figure upwards.",
"contextForm": "revise something up/down"
},
{
"text": "The growth forecast has been revised down."
},
{
"text": "Of the original 200, that was revised to 100, only about 50 people showed up.",
"contextForm": "revise something (from something) (to something)"
},
{
"text": "Sales forecasts will have to be revised downwards/downward."
},
{
"text": "The estimate for the building work had to be revised upwards."
},
{
"text": "The figure has now been revised from $1 million to $2 million."
},
{
"text": "The text has been quite radically revised."
},
{
"text": "Have you got the revised edition of this textbook?"
},
{
"text": "The procedures are continually revised—it is very difficult to keep up with the latest version."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["drastically", "extensively", "heavily"],
"verb + revise": ["be forced to", "have to", "be necessary to"],
"preposition": ["from", "to", "for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to prepare for an exam by looking again at work that you have done",
"sensetop": "revise for somethingrevise something",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I can't come out tonight. I have to revise."
},
{
"text": "I spent the weekend revising for my exam.",
"contextForm": "revise for something"
},
{
"text": "I'm revising Geography today.",
"contextForm": "revise something"
},
{
"text": "I can't come out tonight—I'm revising."
},
{
"text": "She's revising for her exams at the moment."
},
{
"text": "Have you revised geography yet?"
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["drastically", "extensively", "heavily"],
"verb + revise": ["be forced to", "have to", "be necessary to"],
"preposition": ["from", "to", "for"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪz/",
"audio": "re/revise/revise__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzɪz/",
"audio": "re/revise/revises__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzd/",
"audio": "re/revise/revised__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/revise/revising__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪz/",
"audio": "re/revise/revise__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzɪz/",
"audio": "re/revise/revises__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzd/",
"audio": "re/revise/revised__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/revise/revising__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (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’)."
}