All upgrade synonyms
upΒ·grade
U u verb upgrade
- flesh out β the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- make a killing β If you make a killing, you make a large profit very quickly and easily.
- exalt β Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
- meliorate β (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
- advance β To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
- get with it β (in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- hike β to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
- hit pay dirt β to discover a source of wealth, success, etc.
- enhance β Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of.
- break the bank β to ruin financially or deplete the resources of a bank (as in gambling)
- make over β 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.
- enrich β Improve or enhance the quality or value of.
- blue pencil β deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- move up β to pass from one place or position to another.
- develop β When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- come around β If someone comes around or comes round to your house, they call there to see you.
- look over β the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
- clean up one's act β to start to behave in a responsible manner
- optate β (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- ameliorate β If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way.
- hopped up β excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- clean up β 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.
- comes around β to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- do over β Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- optimise β to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- lift β to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- improve β to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- haloed β Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
- modernise β to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- correct β If something is correct, it is in accordance with the facts and has no mistakes.
- aggrandize β To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- haloing β Also called nimbus. a geometric shape, usually in the form of a disk, circle, ring, or rayed structure, traditionally representing a radiant light around or above the head of a divine or sacred personage, an ancient or medieval monarch, etc.
- elevate β Raise or lift (something) up to a higher position.
- optimize β to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- hop up β any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.
noun upgrade
- melioration β Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def 2).
- obliquity β the state of being oblique.
- meliorism β the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.
- facelift β Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- intensification β to make intense or more intense.
- modernization β to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize one's ideas; to modernize a kitchen.
- grade β a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
- inclined plane β one of the simple machines, a plane surface inclined to the horizon, or forming with a horizontal plane any angle but a right angle. Compare machine (def 4b).
- increase β to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- amelioration β the act or an instance of ameliorating or the state of being ameliorated
- facelifting β Present participle of facelift.
- improvement β an act of improving or the state of being improved.
- maximization β to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
- optimization β The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
- maximisation β Alternative spelling of maximization.