modernize

modernize is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 23 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
2. verb. make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

   "You should overhaul your car engine"

   "overhaul the health care system"

   Synonyms: modernise, overhaul

3. verb. become technologically advanced

   "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"

   "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"

   Synonyms: develop, modernise

Synonyms

modernise, overhaul, develop

Common word forms

modernized, modernizer, modernizes, modernizing

Words from these letters

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