revise

Other forms of revise

plural

revises·

past tense

revised·

present participle

revising·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about revise

What does revise mean?

revise means "make revisions in". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in revise?

revise has 2 syllables: re-vise. The stress falls on "vise". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈvaɪz/.

What is another word for revise?

Close synonyms include retool, revision, revisal, rescript. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is revise a common word?

revise is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with revise?

6 words rhyme with revise. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.