To look carefully over with a view to correction; go over in order to suggest or make desirable changes and corrections; review: as, to revise a proofsheet; to revise a translation of the Bible; specifically, in printing, to compare (a new proofsheet of corrected composition) with its previously marked proof, to see that all marked errors have been corrected.To amend; bring into conformity with present needs and circumstances; reform, especially by public or official action.n. A revision; a review and correction.n. In printing, a proof-sheet to be examined by the reviser.