Dictionary Definition
modify
Verb
1 make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please
modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views
on same-gender marriage"
2 add a modifier to a constituent [syn: qualify]
3 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" [syn: change, alter] [also: modified]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Translations
to make partial changes to
- Finnish: muokata, muunnella; (grammar) määrittää
- German: ändern, abändern, modifizieren
- Greek: μετατρέπω (metatrepo), προσδιορίζω (prosdiorizo)
- Romanian: modifica
to be or become modified
- Greek: μετατρέπομαι (metatrepome)
References
Extensive Definition
Modification may refer to:
See also
modify in German: Modifikation
modify in Low German:
Modifikatschoon
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abate,
accommodate,
adapt, adjust, adjust to, alter, ameliorate, amend, analyze, anatomize, assuage, atomize, better, box in, break up,
change, chop logic,
circumscribe,
condition, convert, decrease, deform, denature, desynonymize, difference, differentiate, diminish, discriminate, disequalize, disjoin, distinguish, diversify, divide, fit, hedge, hedge about, improve, individualize, individuate, leaven, lessen, limit, lower, make a distinction,
mark, mark off, mark out,
meliorate, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mutate, narrow, overthrow, palliate, particularize, personalize, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, redo, reduce, refashion, refine a
distinction, refit,
reform, regulate by,
remake, remodel, renew, reorganize, reorient, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revise, revive, reword, rework, ring the changes,
season, segregate, separate, set apart, set
conditions, set limits, set off, sever, severalize, shift the scene,
shuffle the cards, soften, specialize, split hairs,
subvert, temper, tone down, transform, turn, turn the scale, turn the
tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, work a change, worsen