What is "modernised"

Usage examples of "modernised".

The hospital was large, modernised here and there and full of bewildering passages.

Upstairs the rooms were lighter and colourful and cleverly modernised, and on the floor above there was an enormous room for the children, equipped with almost everything a child could wish for.

The houses here were terraced, tall elegant residences built during the Regency, skilfully modernised and expensively maintained.

It was a long ward of twenty-eight beds, not yet modernised, so that the beds faced each other in rows against the walls.