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revolutionize

verb

  1. to bring about a radical change
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnaɪz/ / /ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)u.ʃəˌnaɪz/ / /ˌɹev.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnɑɪz/

verb

Etymology: From revolution + -ize.

  1. 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.

    For Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian-born economist whose writings have acquired a special relevance in the past year or two, this most modern of economic systems “incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”