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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



... antagonism or contest, and resembles in form many Anglo-Saxon words which never found their way into English proper.'' The blunder was not discovered, and another correspondent wrote: "The word andwar would surely modernise into hand-war. Is not andirons (handirons) a parallel word of the same genus?' In the General Index we find "Andwar, an old English word.'' So much for the long life of a ...
— Literary Blunders • Henry B. Wheatley


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


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