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Modernize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make modern in appearance, style, or character; update.

verb-intransitive. To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To bring something up to date, or make it modern in style or function

v. To become modern in appearance, or adopt modern ways

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To give a modern character or appearance to; adapt to modern persons, times, or uses; cause to conform to modern ideas or style: as, to modernize the language of an old writer. Also spelled modernise.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

v. become technologically advanced

Word Usage

"There’s an awful lot of information conveyed as Ruruna and Cain modernize their country, and I’ll likely refer to the list of “Frequently Used SQL Statements” again."

Verb Form

modernized modernizes modernizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change

Form

modernized modernizing

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