revolution

Roget-categorie 146

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.7. Change
›› 1.7.1. Simple change

#146. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution

zelfstandig naamwoord

revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up — destruction etc. 162 — sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change — change of state, phase change — quantum leap, quantum jump — clean sweep, coup d'etat [Fr.], counter revolution.
jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience^† — explosion — spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion — storm, earthquake, cataclysm.
legerdemain etc. (trick) 545.

werkwoord

revolutionize — new model, remodel, recast — strike out something new, break with the past — change the face of, unsex.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

unrecognizable — revolutionary.

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