American English pronunciation
How to pronounce modernize
IPA transcription: ['mɑdɚ,naɪz]
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Verb
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make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
“You should overhaul your car engine”
“overhaul the health care system”
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become technologically advanced
“Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace”
“Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly”
Usage examples
- Modernized, it is still in place.
- As president he sought to modernize the American economy and promote education.
- The choreography is also modernized.
- The funds generated will be used to further modernize the Air Force.
- The program includes a new combat system and a modernized operations room.
- During the communist period in Tuva attempts were made to "modernize" the igil.
- The Shoppers Food Warehouse used the fire as an opportunity to modernize its interior.
- For citizens of rural India, hypergamy is an opportunity to modernize.
- Many of their songs are modernized versions of anarchist civil war songs.
- These efforts to modernize the country brought about a great interest in photography.