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Modernise

verb
1.
Become technologically advanced.  Synonyms: develop, modernize.  "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
2.
Make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to.  Synonyms: modernize, overhaul.  "Overhaul the health care system"






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"Modernise" Quotes from Famous Books



... second), eleven others were called for up to 1709. But it was not for a hundred years that they were again printed, and then the well-meaning but misguided zeal of their resuscitator led him not merely to modernise their spelling, etc. (a venial sin, if, which I am not inclined very positively to lay down, it is a sin at all), but to "improve" their style, sense, and sentiment by omission, alteration, and other tamperings with the text, so as to give the ...
— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... their impatient hopes of this "made the scholars talk aloud, drink healths, and curse Meroz in the very streets; insomuch that when the King came in, they were not only like them that dream, but like them who are out of their wits, mad, stark, staring mad." This unholy 'rag' (to modernise the old gentleman's language) continued for a twelvemonth: that is to say, until the Vice-Chancellor—holding that the demonstration, like Miss Mary Bennet's pianoforte playing in Pride and Prejudice, had delighted the company long enough—put his foot down. And from that time ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch



Words linked to "Modernise" :   build up, touch on, mend, modernisation, change, fix, furbish up, doctor, repair, regenerate, retrofit, renew, bushel, restore, overhaul



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