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rev

/ɹɛv/

rev verb: to increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. Also the clipping of revolution.

Verb

rev (third-person singular simple present revs, present participle revving, simple past and past participle revved)

  1. (ergative) To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.
    • He revved the engine in a rather macho style.
    • You could hear the engines revving from a mile away.

Noun capitalized: REV

REV (plural REVs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of range-extended vehicle or range extender vehicle
    Synonyms:
    EREV, REX, REEV
  2. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of rotary exhaust valve

Proper noun (1) capitalized: REV

REV

  1. A road network in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for bicycles

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Rev

Rev

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Rev..

Also used as

rev is also the clipping of revolution.

rev is also the clipping of revenue.

rev is also the clipping of reverend.

rev meaning in Telugu, Kannada and Nepali

rev in Telugu

రెవ్

rev in Kannada

ರೆವ್ಗೆ, ರೆವ್

rev in Nepali

रेव गर्न

Examples of rev in a sentence

  • Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
  • What was he thinking, the young man who sat at the wheel of the white van at the top of Las Ramblas and purposefully revved the engine?2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer:

All 22 example sentences with rev

Synonyms of rev

Forms of rev

Verb
third-person singular presentrevs
present participlerevving
past participlerevved
pastrevved
Noun
pluralrevs
pluralREVs

Past tense of rev: revved

Origin of rev

Abbreviation of revolutions, rpm

Abbreviation.

From French REV, from Réseau Express Vélo (“Express Bicycle Lane Network”), from réseau express vélo, from réseau+express+vélo

Words formed from rev

Phrases with rev

Words that rhyme with rev

Questions about rev

What does rev mean?
Rev means to increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.
What is rev in Telugu?
Rev in Telugu is రెవ్. See Rev meaning in Telugu.
How do you use rev in a sentence?
Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.
What part of speech is rev?
Rev can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce rev?
Rev is pronounced /ɹɛv/ (UK).
What is the past tense of rev?
The past tense of rev is revved.

Words near rev in the dictionary

  1. reutters
  2. Reutzel
  3. Reutzels
  4. Reuven
  5. Reuverian
  6. rev
  7. Rev Ardashir
  8. rev counter
  9. rev counters
  10. rev st st
  11. rev up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rev (page history and authors); REV (page history and authors); Rev (page history and authors); rev (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rev (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rev (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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