revolutionize

English

Alternative forms

• (UK) revolutionise

Etymology

revolution +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnaɪz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)u.ʃəˌnaɪz/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɹev.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnɑɪz/

Verb

revolutionize (third-person singular simple present revolutionizes, present participle revolutionizing, simple past and past participle revolutionized)

1. to radically or significantly change, as in a revolution
   • 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 February 2019:

     Another kind of machine learning, called neural networks, is also “revolutionizing” AI, the report said.

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Translations

to radically or significantly change, as in a revolution

• Armenian: հեղափոխել (hy) (heġapʻoxel)
• Asturian: revolucionar
• Belarusian: рэвалюцыянізава́ць impf or pf (revaljucyjanizavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: революционизирам (revoljucioniziram)
• Catalan: revolucionar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變革／变革 (zh) (biàngé)

• Danish: revolutionere
• Dutch: revolutioneren
• Finnish: mullistaa (fi)
• French: révolutionner (fr)
• Galician: revolucionar
• German: revolutionieren (de)
• Hungarian: forradalmasít (hu)
• Italian: rivoluzionare (it)
• Japanese: 革命を起こす (かくめいをおこす, kakumei wo okosu)
• Kazakh: революцияландыру (revolüsiälandyru), түбірімен өзгерту (tübırımen özgertu)
• Latvian: revolucionizēt
• Polish: rewolucjonizować impf, zrewolucjonizować pf
• Russian: революционизировать (ru) (revoljucionizirovatʹ)
• Spanish: revolucionar (es)
• Swedish: revolutionera (sv)
• Ukrainian: революціонізува́ти impf or pf (revoljucionizuváty)