modify
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- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 6
/ˈmɒd.ɪ.faɪ/
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/ˈmɒd.ɪ.faɪ/ · /ˈmɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/
Definition of modify
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To change part of.
“Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.”
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verb
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(transitive)To change part of.
“Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.”
- (intransitive)To be or become modified.
- (transitive)To set bounds to; to moderate.
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(transitive)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[…]”
“Adjectives modify nouns.”
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Etymology
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.
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