revolutionize

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   change radically

   E-mail revolutionized communication in academe

2. 2
   verb

   To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution.

   Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.

3. 3
   verb

   fill with revolutionary ideas

4. 4
   verb

   overthrow by a revolution, of governments

Etymology

From revolution + -ize.