Crossword clues for modernize
modernize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modernize \Mod"ern*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Modernized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Modernizing.] [Cf. F. moderniser.]
To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to
cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
--Percy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1748, from modern + -ize, or from French moderniser. Related: Modernized; modernizing; modernizer.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To bring something up-to-date, or make it modern in style or function 2 (context intransitive English) To become modern in appearance, or adopt modern ways
WordNet
Usage examples of "modernize".
In many of his contemporaries also much the same fluctuation of mood was occurring, and to them as to Paul it seemed that the issue lay between the old faith, however modernized, and the complete abnegation of human dignity.
The translations have all been made with care, but for the sake of younger pupils simplified and modernized as much as close adherence to the sense would permit.
This was in the form of a guided tour through the science museum which, Hockley gathered, was a modernized Ryke parallel to the venerable Smithsonian back home.
The pastoralists and seminomadic tribespeople who had once driven their camels and cattle through the area had another view, but it did not appear to count for much because their lifestyles disfranchised them from the politics of a nation struggling desperately to modernize.
I again asked Congress to provide funds to build or modernize five thousand schools and to approve a sixfold increase in the number of college scholarships for students who would commit to teaching in underserved areas.
Their fortunes, like those of the Ainu, had faded as Japan modernized, perhaps in part because they eschewed the use of modern weapons like guns.
As is, the system interdicts any attempt to modernize operations in the bluejack area.
The fort had been built by the Japanese, then modernized by the French to guard the road between Cao Bang and Bac Kan farther to the South.
Meiji and early Taisho periods were pessimistic or skeptical about the values of a modernized Japan.
The pastoralists and seminomadic tribespeople who had once driven their camels and cattle through the area had another view, but it did not appear to count for much because their lifestyles disfranchised them from the politics of a nation struggling desperately to modernize.
You are a good leader, you possess the Shimonoseki Straits, your cannon cannot stop the gai-jin ships until we can buy or build an equal fleet and modernize our armies--gai-jin ships, cannon and firearms are all we need.
I again asked Congress to provide funds to build or modernize five thousand schools and to approve a sixfold increase in the number of college scholarships for students who would commit to teaching in underserved areas.
Modernize the style of this, and it might have come out of one of the debunking war books of the nineteen-twenties.
Still, most experts believe that a modernized Tamiami Gun Shop will reopen and be as popular as ever.
This is more likely against a modernized, developed state than an underdeveloped government.