renews
USri-NOOZ/ɹɪˈnuz/UKri-NYOOZ/ɹɪˈnjuːz/AUSruh-NYOOZ/ɹəˈnjuːz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of renew.
The company renews its insurance policy at the end of every fiscal year.
A good night's sleep renews her energy for the day ahead.
Note
Almost every use of this form has an object after it, because the living meanings of renew are transitive: something renews a policy, a supply, a spirit, an attack. Without an object, as in the land renews or hope renews, it falls back on the old intransitive meaning 'to become new again', which now sounds archaic. In everyday prose, write that something is renewed, or that it renews itself.
renews is a form of renew
renew, verb: To bring something back to a fresh or original state, as if it were new. Full entry
- Spelling
- renew → renews: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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