renew
/ɹɪˈnju/ verb B1- To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition.
- To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of.
- To make new spiritually; to regenerate.
- To begin again; to recommence. · This murder has been a cold case for decades until last year when the new sheriff renewed the investigation.
- To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned. · I'd like to renew these three books. Did you know that you can renew online?
He/she/it renews · Past renewed · Past participle renewed · -ing form renewing
Verb forms
- Base form
- renew
- He/she/it
- renews
- Past
- renewed
- Past participle
- renewed
- -ing form
- renewing
From the library
But may we not hope that the period of future happiness, to which Miss Bingley looks forward, may arrive earlier than she is aware, and that the delightful intercourse you have known as friends will be renewed with yet greater satisfaction as sisters?
In his present behaviour to herself, moreover, she had a fresh source of displeasure; for the inclination he soon testified of renewing those attentions which had marked the early part of their acquaintance could only serve, after what had since passed, to provoke her.
Fatigued as she had been by the morning’s walk, they had no sooner dined than she set off again in quest of her former acquaintance, and the evening was spent in the satisfactions of an intercourse renewed after many years’ discontinuance.
She had never heard of him before his entrance into the ----shire militia, in which he had engaged at the persuasion of the young man, who, on meeting him accidentally in town, had there renewed a slight acquaintance.
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