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Innovate vs Renovate - What's the difference?

innovate | renovate |

As verbs the difference between innovate and renovate

is that innovate is to alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize while renovate is to renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.

innovate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
  • * , New York 2001, p.80:
    • But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
  • * South
    • From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
  • To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
  • To introduce (something) as new.
    • to innovate a word or an act

    Derived terms

    * innovative * innovation * innovatory

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    renovate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
    • This house is shabby, it needs renovating.
  • To restore to freshness or vigor.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * renovation