Modify

Verb

 * 1)  To make partial changes to.
 * 2)  To be or become modified.

Synonyms

 * adapt, alter, amend, revamp, rework

Related terms

 * modification
 * modifier

Adverbs for Modify
deferentially; partially; essentially; substantially; subsequently; drastically; profoundly; intrinsically; dogmatically.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
< modifien: <  modifier: <  modificare: < modificari: < modus: + facere:; see mode.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Danish: modificere
 * Estonian: muutma
 * Finnish: muokata, muunnella; (grammar) määrittää


 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Polish: modyfikować
 * Romanian:


 * Greek: μετατρέπομαι (metatrepome)