EGAVE

modify

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 9.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To change part of.
    Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.
  2. verb To be or become modified.
  3. verb To set bounds to; to moderate.
  4. verb To qualify the meaning of.

Similar words

qualify modulate modification amended update edited modifier editable altering alter

Often followed by

the their or it a its his and this them

Word family

modifiabilities modifiability modifiable modification modifications modified modifies modifying

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