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All update synonyms

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noun update

  • flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
  • briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
  • news — netnews
  • newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.

verb update

  • gussy up — to enhance the attractiveness of in a gimmicky, showy manner (usually followed by up): a room gussied up with mirrors and lights.
  • clean up — If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
  • let in on — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
  • advise — If you advise someone to do something, you tell them what you think they should do.
  • make ready — the state or condition of being ready.
  • innovate — to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
  • facelift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
  • blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
  • modernize — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
  • brief — Something that is brief lasts for only a short time.
  • come around — If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
  • look over — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
  • enlighten — Give (someone) greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.
  • inform — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
  • emendate — (obsolete) emended, corrected, restored.
  • make over — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
  • kibitz — to act as a kibitzer.
  • disciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
  • instruct — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
  • comes around — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • optimise — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
  • gussied up — dressed in a showy way
  • modernise — to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
  • improve — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
  • kibitzing — to act as a kibitzer.
  • level with — having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
  • blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
  • optimize — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
  • clue in — anything that serves to guide or direct in the solution of a problem, mystery, etc.
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