MODERNISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does modernise mean? 

• MODERNISE (verb)
  The verb MODERNISE has 2 senses:

1. become technologically advanced

2. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

  Familiarity information: MODERNISE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MODERNISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they modernise    ... he / she / it modernises   
Past simple: modernised   
Past participle: modernised   
-ing form: modernising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become technologically advanced

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

develop; modernise; modernize

Context example:

Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly

Hypernyms (to "modernise" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

build up; develop (change the use of and make available or usable)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

modernisation (making modern in appearance or behavior)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

modernise; modernize; overhaul

Context example:

overhaul the health care system

Hypernyms (to "modernise" is one way to...):

regenerate; renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

"Modernise" entails doing...:

bushel; doctor; fix; furbish up; mend; repair; restore; touch on (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "modernise"):

retrofit (substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

One of whom, having never before understood that Thornton was so soon and so completely to be his home, was pondering with downcast eyes on what it would be not to see Edmund every day; and the other, startled from the agreeable fancies she had been previously indulging on the strength of her brother's description, no longer able, in the picture she had been forming of a future Thornton, to shut out the church, sink the clergyman, and see only the respectable, elegant, modernised, and occasional residence of a man of independent fortune, was considering Sir Thomas, with decided ill-will, as the destroyer of all this, and suffering the more from that involuntary forbearance which his character and manner commanded, and from not daring to relieve herself by a single attempt at throwing ridicule on his cause.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)