modify

To change part of.

Verb

  1. To change part of.
    • Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.
  2. To be or become modified.
  3. To set bounds to; to moderate.
  4. To qualify the meaning of.
    • There is inherently no ordering to the modification and no hierarchy of modification: that is, both adjectives modify the substantive and both apply equally to the substantive[…] - 1977, Linda R. Waugh, A Semantic...
    • Adjectives modify nouns. - 2016, Allen Ascher, The New Harbrace Guide: Genres for Composing:

Origin

From Middle English modifien, from Middle French modifier, from Latin modificare (“to limit, control, regulate, deponent”), from modificari (“to measure off, set bound to, moderate”), from modus (“measure”) + facere (“to make”); see mode.

Forms

modifies modifying modified no-table-tags glossary modify modifiest modifiedst modifieth -

Synonyms

adapt alter amend revamp rework

Related

modification

Derived

automodify biomodify demodify hydromodify modifiability modifier overmodify postmodify premodify remodify submodify undermodify