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Defenition of the word modify

    • Defenition of the word modify

      • To make different.
      • To make partial changes.
      • To add a modifier to a constituent.
      • make modifications (to); "please modify this letter to make it more polite"
      • add a modifier to a constituent; in grammar
      • cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
      • make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage"
      • add a modifier to a constituent
      • cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
      • make less severe or harsh or extreme

    Synonyms for the word modify

      • adapt
      • adjust
      • alter
      • amend
      • change
      • control
      • curb
      • moderate
      • modulate
      • mutate
      • play down
      • qualify
      • revise
      • temper
      • tone down
      • transform
      • vary

    Similar words in the modify

      • modify
      • modifying

    Hyponyms for the word modify

      • accelerate
      • accustom
      • acerbate
      • acetylate
      • acetylise
      • acetylize
      • achromatise
      • achromatize
      • activate
      • add
      • adjust
      • adorn
      • aerate
      • affect
      • age
      • aggravate
      • alchemise
      • alchemize
      • alcoholise
      • alcoholize
      • alien
      • alienate
      • alkalinise
      • alkalinize
      • allegorise
      • allegorize
      • alter
      • amalgamate
      • ameliorate
      • amend
      • Americanise
      • Americanize
      • anglicise
      • anglicize
      • angulate
      • animalise
      • animalize
      • animate
      • animise
      • animize
      • antiquate
      • antique
      • archaise
      • archaize
      • arouse
      • arterialise
      • arterialize
      • ash
      • assimilate
      • attemper
      • automate
      • automatise
      • automatize
      • awaken
      • barb
      • barbarise
      • barbarize
      • bear on
      • bear upon
      • beautify
      • bedim
      • beef up
      • begrime
      • bemire
      • bestialise
      • bestialize
      • bestow
      • better
      • blear
      • blind
      • blister
      • blot out
      • blunt
      • blur
      • boil
      • bolshevise
      • bolshevize
      • break
      • break down
      • break up
      • brighten
      • bring
      • brutalise
      • brutalize
      • bubble
      • buffer
      • calcify
      • camp
      • capture
      • cause to sleep
      • centralise
      • centralize
      • change intensity
      • change over
      • change taste
      • charge
      • chasten
      • check
      • chill
      • chord
      • circularize
      • civilise
      • civilize
      • clarify
      • classicise
      • classicize
      • clean
      • clear
      • clot
      • cloud
      • coagulate
      • coarsen
      • cohere
      • collimate
      • colly
      • color
      • color in
      • colorise
      • colorize
      • colour
      • colour in
      • colourise
      • colourize
      • commercialise
      • commercialize
      • commix
      • communise
      • communize
      • commute
      • compensate
      • complicate
      • concentrate
      • condense
      • confuse
      • constitutionalise
      • constitutionalize
      • contaminate
      • contract
      • contribute
      • conventionalise
      • conventionalize
      • convert
      • cook
      • cool
      • cool down
      • correct
      • corrupt
      • counterchange
      • crack
      • cream
      • crush
      • cry
      • cushion
      • customise
      • customize
      • cut
      • damage
      • darken
      • de-emphasise
      • de-emphasize
      • deactivate
      • deaden
      • deaminate
      • deaminize
      • debase
      • debauch
      • decarboxylate
      • decelerate
      • decentralise
      • decentralize
      • decimalise
      • decimalize
      • deconcentrate
      • decorate
      • decrease
      • decrepitate
      • deflate
      • defog
      • deform
      • degauss
      • dehydrogenate
      • delay
      • demagnetise
      • demagnetize
      • demist
      • democratise
      • democratize
      • demonise
      • demonize
      • demoralise
      • demoralize
      • demulsify
      • demythologise
      • demythologize
      • denationalise
      • denationalize
      • denaturalise
      • denaturalize
      • denature
      • deodorise
      • deodorize
      • deodourise
      • depersonalise
      • depersonalize
      • depolarise
      • depolarize
      • deprave
      • depress
      • desensitise
      • desensitize
      • destabilise
      • destabilize
      • destress
      • detransitivise
      • detransitivize
      • devalue
      • develop
      • devilise
      • devilize
      • diabolise
      • diabolize
      • digitalise
      • digitalize
      • digitise
      • digitize
      • dinge
      • dirty
      • disable
      • disaffect
      • disarray
      • discolor
      • disenable
      • disharmonize
      • disintegrate
      • dismiss
      • disorder
      • disqualify
      • dissimilate
      • dissolve
      • dissonate
      • disturb
      • diversify
      • dizzy
      • domesticate
      • domesticise
      • domesticize
      • dope
      • draw
      • drop
      • dry
      • dry out
      • dull
      • dynamise
      • dynamize
      • ease off
      • ease up
      • edit
      • edit out
      • effeminise
      • effeminize
      • elaborate
      • elevate
      • embellish
      • embrittle
      • empty
      • emulsify
      • enable
      • end
      • energise
      • energize
      • envenom
      • equal
      • equalise
      • equalize
      • equate
      • eroticize
      • erreminise
      • estrange
      • eternalise
      • eternalize
      • eternise
      • eternize
      • etherealize
      • etherialise
      • etiolate
      • Europeanise
      • Europeanize
      • evaporate
      • even
      • even out
      • exacerbate
      • exasperate
      • exchange
      • excite
      • expand
      • extend
      • exteriorise
      • exteriorize
      • externalise
      • externalize
      • fasten
      • fat
      • fatten
      • fatten out
      • fatten up
      • fecundate
      • feminise
      • feminize
      • fertilise
      • fertilize
      • fill
      • fill out
      • fill up
      • fix
      • flatten
      • flesh out
      • flocculate
      • form
      • fortify
      • freeze
      • Frenchify
      • freshen
      • full
      • gear up
      • gelatinise
      • gelatinize
      • get
      • glamorise
      • glamorize
      • glamourise
      • glamourize
      • glorify
      • grace
      • grime
      • habituate
      • harden
      • harmonise
      • harmonize
      • harshen
      • heat
      • heat up
      • hide
      • hop up
      • hot up
      • hue
      • humanise
      • humanize
      • humble
      • hydrogenate
      • immaterialise
      • immaterialize
      • immortalise
      • immortalize
      • impact
      • impart
      • improve
      • inactivate
      • incandesce
      • incapacitate
      • increase
      • indispose
      • individualise
      • individualize
      • industrialise
      • industrialize
      • inflate
      • inflect
      • inform
      • inseminate
      • inspissate
      • insulate
      • intensify
      • interchange
      • internationalise
      • internationalize
      • intransitivise
      • intransitivize
      • introvert
      • invalidate
      • invert
      • iodinate
      • ionate
      • Islamise
      • Islamize
      • isomerise
      • isomerize
      • lace
      • laicise
      • laicize
      • land
      • legitimate
      • lend
      • lessen
      • let up
      • liberalise
      • liberalize
      • lifehack
      • lift
      • lighten
      • lighten up
      • liquefy
      • liquidise
      • liquidize
      • liquify
      • loose
      • loosen
      • louden
      • lower
      • lubricate
      • magnetise
      • magnetize
      • make
      • make clean
      • make full
      • make grow
      • make possible
      • mark
      • market
      • masculinise
      • masculinize
      • match
      • mature
      • mechanise
      • mechanize
      • meliorate
      • merge
      • militarise
      • militarize
      • mince
      • mingle
      • minify
      • misdirect
      • mix
      • moderate
      • morph
      • muddy
      • mythicise
      • mythicize
      • mythologise
      • mythologize
      • nationalise
      • nationalize
      • naturalise
      • naturalize
      • Nazify
      • neutralise
      • neutralize
      • nick
      • normalise
      • normalize
      • obfuscate
      • objectify
      • obliterate
      • obnubilate
      • obscure
      • occidentalise
      • occidentalize
      • officialise
      • officialize
      • opacify
      • opalise
      • opalize
      • opsonize
      • optimise
      • optimize
      • orientalise
      • orientalize
      • ornament
      • ossify
      • outmode
      • overcloud
      • overturn
      • oxidate
      • oxidise
      • oxidize
      • oxygenise
      • oxygenize
      • paganise
      • paganize
      • pall
      • parallel
      • patent
      • perplex
      • personalise
      • personalize
      • pervert
      • piggyback
      • plasticise
      • plasticize
      • plump
      • plump out
      • poison
      • polarise
      • polarize
      • politicise
      • politicize
      • port
      • prepare
      • pressurise
      • pressurize
      • profane
      • professionalise
      • professionalize
      • proof
      • prostrate
      • purge
      • purify
      • put
      • qualify
      • radicalize
      • raise
      • rarefy
      • rarify
      • rationalise
      • rationalize
      • ready
      • reclaim
      • recombine
      • recommend
      • reconstruct
      • rectify
      • redact
      • redo
      • redress
      • reestablish
      • refine
      • reflate
      • reform
      • refresh
      • refreshen
      • regenerate
      • reinstate
      • relax
      • remodel
      • renormalise
      • renormalize
      • replace
      • restore
      • restrict
      • retard
      • reverse
      • revolutionise
      • revolutionize
      • right
      • ripen
      • romanticise
      • romanticize
      • round
      • round down
      • round off
      • round out
      • rouse
      • rusticate
      • sanctify
      • sanitise
      • sanitize
      • saponify
      • saturate
      • sauce
      • schematise
      • schematize
      • scramble
      • sensibilise
      • sensibilize
      • sensify
      • sensitise
      • sensitize
      • sentimentalise
      • sentimentalize
      • set
      • set aside
      • set up
      • sex up
      • sexualise
      • sexualize
      • shade
      • shake
      • shallow
      • shape
      • sharpen
      • shift
      • shoal
      • shorten
      • simplify
      • slenderise
      • slenderize
      • slow down
      • smut
      • sober
      • socialise
      • socialize
      • soften
      • soil
      • solemnise
      • solemnize
      • solvate
      • soup up
      • specialise
      • specialize
      • speed
      • speed up
      • spice
      • spice up
      • spike
      • spiritualize
      • spoil
      • sputter
      • stabilise
      • stabilize
      • stain
      • steepen
      • stiffen
      • still
      • straighten
      • straighten out
      • strengthen
      • string
      • subdue
      • sublimate
      • substitute
      • subtilize
      • suburbanise
      • suburbanize
      • subvert
      • supercharge
      • supple
      • suspend
      • sweeten
      • switch
      • symmetrise
      • symmetrize
      • synchronise
      • synchronize
      • syncopate
      • tame
      • temper
      • tender
      • tenderise
      • tenderize
      • tense
      • terminate
      • territorialise
      • territorialize
      • thicken
      • think
      • tighten
      • tone down
      • touch
      • touch on
      • transaminate
      • transfigure
      • transform
      • transitivise
      • transitivize
      • translate
      • transmute
      • transpose
      • transubstantiate
      • turn
      • turn back
      • uglify
      • unclutter
      • undo
      • unfit
      • uniformise
      • uniformize
      • unify
      • unite
      • unsanctify
      • unscramble
      • unsex
      • unsubstantialise
      • unsubstantialize
      • untie
      • untune
      • update
      • urbanise
      • urbanize
      • validate
      • vaporise
      • variegate
      • vascularise
      • vascularize
      • veil
      • ventilate
      • verbify
      • vesiculate
      • virilise
      • virilize
      • visualise
      • visualize
      • vitalise
      • vitalize
      • vitiate
      • vitrify
      • vivify
      • void
      • volatilise
      • volatilize
      • vulgarise
      • vulgarize
      • wake
      • wake up
      • waken
      • warm
      • weaken
      • weaponize
      • westernise
      • westernize
      • wet
      • widen
      • womanize
      • worsen

    Hypernyms for the word modify

      • add
      • change

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