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Definition of Modernize

1. Verb. Make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to. "Overhaul the health care system"

2. Verb. Become technologically advanced. "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"

Definition of Modernize

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

Definition of Modernize

1. Verb. (transitive) To bring something up to date, or make it modern in style or function ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To become modern in appearance, or adopt modern ways ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Modernize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernize

modernisers modernises modernising modernism modernisms modernist modernista modernistas modernistic modernists

modernities modernity modernizable modernization modernizations modernize (current term) modernized modernizer modernizers modernizes

modernizing modernly modernness modernnesses moderns moders modes modes of thought modest proposal

Literary usage of Modernize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chinese System of Public Education by Ping-wên Kuo (1915)
"Effort to modernize the Traditional Schools One of the educational reforms was the attempt to modernize the traditional schools. Here is a notable instance. ..."

2. An Analysis of U. S. Army Helicopter Programs by Frances M. Lussier (1996)
"Alternative IV: Retain and modernize Helicopters in the Army's Inventory Like Alternative I, this last alternative would emphasize improving the Army's ..."

3. Diary of George Mifflin Dallas: While United States Minister to Russia 1837 by George Mifflin Dallas (1892)
"His true reason is the known lack of funds to renovate and modernize. The furniture is costly and beautiful, but not in the reigning fashion. ..."

4. Missions: American Baptist International Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1911)
"... calmly undertaken to correct, modernize and adapt to a scientific basis the greatest literary monument of the ages, to say nothing of its divine REV. ..."

5. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1878)
"I modernize the spelling, but leave the grammar untouched. " The like of that Assembly I did never see, and, ..."

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