innovate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.

   But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].

2. 2
   verb

   To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.

   Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.

3. 3
   verb

   To introduce (something) as new.

   to innovate a word or an act

4. 4
   verb

   bring something new to an environment

Etymology

First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin innovātus, perfect passive participle of innovō (“to renew”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).