Usually means: Fundamentally change something in society.
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  1. revolutionise: Merriam-Webster
  2. revolutionise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. revolutionise: Vocabulary.com
  4. Revolutionise, revolutionise: Wordnik
  5. revolutionise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. revolutionise: Wiktionary
  7. revolutionise: Dictionary.com
  8. revolutionise: Rhymezone
  9. revolutionise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. revolutionise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. revolutionise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. revolutionise: Legal dictionary

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  1. revolutionise: Encyclopedia

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▸ verb:  To change radically or significantly, as in a revolution.

Similar:
revolutionize, revolutionalize, change the game, innovate, radicalize, radicalise, reradicalize, reprogram, evolutionise, turn, more...

Opposite:
maintain, preserve, conserve, uphold, retain

Types:
change, transform, alter, improve, update, modernize, overhaul, more...

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Similar:
revolutionize, revolutionalize, change the game, innovate, radicalize, radicalise, reradicalize, reprogram, evolutionise, turn, more...

Opposite:
maintain, preserve, conserve, uphold, retain

Types:
change, transform, alter, improve, update, modernize, overhaul, more...



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