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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: modernize)
WordNet
adj. brought up to date; "modernized methods" [syn: modernised]
Usage examples of "modernized".
The house was small, only five rooms, and had been built back in the fifties, but it had been remodeled and modernized with an eye toward selling it.
Her home had been modernized many times over the cen-turies, but the Gothic architecture had been preserved as closely as possible to the original.
Rather than use the centuries-old bathing pools, now modernized, Antonietta filled her private bathtub and tossed in scented salts.
The modernized forms are easily recognized and are intended to be pronounced as in English.
For the same reasons a few personal names have also been modernized, as Shadowfax and Wormtongue.
Chinese history has still to be modernized by Chinese scholars and cleared of much legendary matter.
He set about rebuilding France, and made it into a brilliant-looking modernized imperialism.
Both Hayden Hill and the dowager house had been built in the late 1700s, after the original manor house had been destroyed by fire but both had been extensively modernized as time passed.
I was escorted to the back door, which opened into a small back foyer and then into the kitchen, which had been modernized without sacrificing the style.
The main gate was modernized about a century ago, with two defensive towers and a dog-leg.
It was cheap, it worked well, and it modernized the huge supply of one and two-thousand-pound bombs still in the inventory.
America allied to a modernized orderly Europe could bring on a vast rebirth of the West, a new golden age.