Modernize
['mɑdɚnaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) become technologically advanced; 'Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace'; 'Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly'.
Checker: Nanette--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
Typist: Stephanie
Examples
- Spain had 10,000 muskets to modernize by the same system, and the breech-block attachments were made at Ilion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Hackworth also improved the steam blast, put on the bell, and greatly simplified and modernized the appearance of the locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Modernized, it is now the scene of more peaceful recreations than the exhibition of a party of wild beasts with Christians for dinner. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Allison