{
    "term": "revise",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "revise",
            "heSheIt": "revises"
        },
        "pastSimple": "revised",
        "pastParticiple": "revised",
        "ingForm": "revising"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to change your opinions or plans, for example because of something you have learned",
            "sensetop": "revise something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I can see I will have to revise my opinions of his abilities now."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government may need to revise its policy in the light of this report."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I realised that I would have to revise my life plan."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["drastically", "extensively", "heavily"],
                "verb + revise": ["be forced to", "have to", "be necessary to"],
                "preposition": ["from", "to", "for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to change something, such as a book or an estimate, in order to correct or improve it",
            "sensetop": "revise somethingrevise something up/downrevise something (from something) (to something)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a revised edition of a textbook"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll prepare a revised estimate for you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This revised version of his play has only two acts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They should create a revised marketing plan."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We may have to revise this figure upwards.",
                    "contextForm": "revise something up/down"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The growth forecast has been revised down."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Of the original 200, that was revised to 100, only about 50 people showed up.",
                    "contextForm": "revise something (from something) (to something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sales forecasts will have to be revised downwards/​downward."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The estimate for the building work had to be revised upwards."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The figure has now been revised from $1 million to $2 million."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The text has been quite radically revised."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Have you got the revised edition of this textbook?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The procedures are continually revised—it is very difficult to keep up with the latest version."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["drastically", "extensively", "heavily"],
                "verb + revise": ["be forced to", "have to", "be necessary to"],
                "preposition": ["from", "to", "for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to prepare for an exam by looking again at work that you have done",
            "sensetop": "revise for somethingrevise something",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I can't come out tonight. I have to revise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I spent the weekend revising for my exam.",
                    "contextForm": "revise for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm revising Geography today.",
                    "contextForm": "revise something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't come out tonight—I'm revising."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's revising for her exams at the moment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Have you revised geography yet?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["drastically", "extensively", "heavily"],
                "verb + revise": ["be forced to", "have to", "be necessary to"],
                "preposition": ["from", "to", "for"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪz/",
                "audio": "re/revise/revise__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "re/revise/revises__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzd/",
                "audio": "re/revise/revised__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/revise/revising__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪz/",
                "audio": "re/revise/revise__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzɪz/",
                "audio": "re/revise/revises__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzd/",
                "audio": "re/revise/revised__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/revise/revising__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’): from French réviser ‘look at’, or Latin revisere ‘look at again’, from re- ‘again’ + visere (intensive form of videre ‘to see’)."
}