innovate

present singular third person innovates · participle present innovating · participle past innovated · past innovated

1. obsoletetransitiveTo alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.

   From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.

   1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

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   But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered[…].

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 80

2. intransitiveTo introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.

   Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.

   2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319

3. transitiveTo introduce (something) as new.

   to innovate a word or an act

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   The Russian defense industrial base (DIB) continues to innovate military equipment and weapons for Russian forces to use in Ukraine.

   2025 February 4, Nicole Wolkov, Christina Harward, Olivia Gibson, Grace Mappes, Kateryna Stepanenko, George Barros, Frederick W. Kagan, Nate Trotter, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 4, 2025”, in Ukraine Project, Institute for the Study of War

   Synonyms: invent