1. Make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
   - overhaul, modernise [Brit] 
2. Become technologically advanced
   "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
   - modernise [Brit], develop

Derived forms: modernized, modernizes, modernizing

See also: modernization

Type of: change, regenerate, renew

Encyclopedia: Modernize

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