Revolutionizes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To introduce groundbreaking changes that fundamentally transform a concept, greatly improve methods, and challenge established norms in a significant way
2. To create major changes that redefine practices, enhance effectiveness, and disrupt conventional thinking in a revolutionary fashion
3. Causes profound and comprehensive transformations that alter traditional approaches and radically improve the current state of affairs

Etymology: This is an inflected form, the third-person singular present of "revolutionize," which is built from "revolution" plus the suffix "-ize," meaning to make or to cause to become. The base verb carries the sense of bringing about a complete change of state, and its most striking feature is how far it has moved from its root. "Revolution" once described the regular turning of heavenly bodies around their orbits, a sense that gave the word its sense of a cycle returning to its starting point. Only later did it come to mean an overthrow of a political order, and then a sweeping change in any field, which is the sense "revolutionize" now carries.

Synonyms: transforms, innovates, changes, reforms, overhauls

Antonyms: stagnates, maintains, preserves, retreats, reverts