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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



... present chapter to the purposes of our Collection, the only liberty we have taken with the ancient translation exhibited by Hakluyt, has been to employ the modern orthography in the names of places, persons, and things, and to modernise the language throughout. As in the itinerary of Verthema, to avoid the multiplication of notes unnecessarily we have corrected the frequently vicious orthography of these names as given by Cesar Frederick and his original ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr



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



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