innovate

Verb

innovate (third-person singular simple present innovates, present participle innovating, simple past and past participle innovated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
   • But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […]., New York 2001, p.80
   • 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
2. (intransitive) To 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...
3. (transitive) To introduce (something) as new.
   • to innovate a word or an act
   • 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...

   Synonyms:

   invent