Definition of "innovate"

innovate

/ˈɪnəveɪt/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps
  From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
  1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727
2. (intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
  Quotations
  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 Perspective on Continuity and Change‎, page 319
3. (transitive) To introduce (something) as new.