modify
verb
1 modify
Make less severe or harsh or extreme.
Roget 15: be different etc. adj.; differ, vary, ablude†, mismatch, contrast; divaricate; differ toto coelo [Lat.], differ longo intervallo [It]. vary, modify etc. (change) 140. discriminate etc. 465. ... show more
is a specific kind of: change.
is a broader term that covers: optimise, optimize | attemper | syncopate | update | update | hop up, hot up, soup up | cream | qualify | corrupt, spoil | harden, temper | specialise, specialize | buffer | inflect | buffer, cushion, soften ... show more.
derivation: adjustment, alteration, modification | modification | alteration, change, modification | changer, modifier | modifiable.
2 modify
Add a modifier to a constituent.
synonym: qualify.
Roget 469: qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper. waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain) 475; equivocate (sophistry) 477. depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect) 154. allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account; modulate. moderate, temper, season, leaven. take exception. ... show more
is a specific kind of: add.
domain category: grammar.
derivation: modifier, qualifier | limiting, modification, qualifying.
3 modify
Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.
Roget 140: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert†; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume. work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume†; metamorphose, ring the changes. innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf. recast etc. 146; reverse etc. 218; disturb etc. 61; convert into etc. 144. ... show more
is a broader term that covers: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken | cause to sleep | affect | freshen, refresh, refreshen | fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, inseminate | indispose | cry | etiolate | shade | animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize | convert | opalise, opalize | arterialise, arterialize | get, make | counterchange, interchange, transpose | vascularise, vascularize | decrepitate | suburbanise, suburbanize | overturn, revolutionise, revolutionize | etiolate | barbarise, barbarize | alkalinise, alkalinize | mythicise, mythicize, mythologise, mythologize | allegorise, allegorize | demythologise, demythologize | bring, land | coarsen | affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on | alchemise, alchemize | alcoholise, alcoholize | form, shape | round, round down, round off, round out | suspend | sober | reconstruct | increase | ease off, ease up, let up | assimilate | dissimilate | commute, convert, exchange | vitalise, vitalize | clear, unclutter | activate | activate | activate, aerate | activate | deactivate, inactivate | blunt, deaden | reconstruct, redo, remodel | edit, redact | cut, edit, edit out | chasten, subdue, tame | chasten, temper | ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate | aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen | wet | dry, dry out | lubricate | beef up, fortify, strengthen | fortify, lace, spike | weaken | blunt | oxidate, oxidise, oxidize | merge, unify, unite | age | mature, ripen | antiquate, antique | antiquate | develop, make grow | soften | damage | ossify | acerbate | stabilise, stabilize | destabilise, destabilize | sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize | desensitise, desensitize | accustom, habituate | disarray, disorder | discolor | color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize | stain | hue | uglify | untune | adjust, correct, set | set | disqualify, indispose, unfit | domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame | widen | dehydrogenate | hydrogenate | oxygenise, oxygenize | darken | brighten, lighten, lighten up | blear, blur | bedim, obscure, overcloud | blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure, veil | cook | slenderise, slenderize | crack | dismiss, dissolve | end, terminate | defog, demist | concentrate, condense, contract | chill, cool, cool down | heat, heat up | warm | boil | freeze | blister | change over, shift, switch | transpose | change over, convert | transform | transform | transform | transmute | transform, transmute, transubstantiate | ash | transform, translate | reclaim, rectify, reform, regenerate | convert | Islamise, Islamize | invert, reverse, turn back | invert | customise, customize | individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize | depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify | sharpen | drop, flatten | disintegrate | magnetise, magnetize | degauss, demagnetise, demagnetize | simplify | complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine | refine | complicate, perplex | pressurise, pressurize, supercharge | centralise, centralize, concentrate | decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate | socialise, socialize | fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up | internationalise, internationalize | bolshevise, bolshevize, communise, communize | Europeanise, Europeanize | Europeanise, Europeanize | bestialise, bestialize | Americanise, Americanize | Frenchify | civilise, civilize | nationalise, nationalize | denationalise, denationalize | naturalise, naturalize | denaturalise, denaturalize | naturalise, naturalize | denaturalise, denaturalize | even, even out | equal, equalise, equalize, equate, match | stiffen | loose, loosen | fasten, tighten | transitivise, transitivize | detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize | inspissate, thicken | full | diversify | decelerate, slow down | deaden | accelerate, speed, speed up | check, delay, retard | decrease, lessen, minify | liquefy, liquidise, liquidize, liquify | solvate | dissolve | validate | invalidate, vitiate, void | empty | fill, fill up, make full | saturate | clot, coagulate | louden | normalise, normalize, renormalise, renormalize | morph | neutralise, neutralize | commercialise, commercialize, market | purge, purify, sanctify | mechanise, mechanize | automate, automatise, automatize | automatise, automatize | mechanise, mechanize | chord, harmonise, harmonize | polarise, polarize | glorify | contaminate | devalue | insulate | calcify | urbanise, urbanize | urbanise, urbanize | emulsify | demulsify | decarboxylate | nazify | fecundate, fertilise, fertilize | clarify | embrittle | mark | nick | disable, disenable, incapacitate | enable | de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress | tender, tenderise, tenderize | charge | bubble | sweeten | iodinate | ionate | archaise, archaize | inform | officialise, officialize | occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize | orientalise, orientalize | acetylate, acetylise, acetylize | achromatise, achromatize | collimate, parallel | camp | classicise, classicize | conventionalise, conventionalize | decimalise, decimalize | dizzy | envenom, poison | exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify | glamorise, glamorize, glamourise, glamourize | introvert | laicise, laicize | politicise, politicize | radicalize | proof | romanticise, romanticize | rusticate | sauce | shallow, shoal | tense | steepen | scramble | unscramble | unsex | vitrify | pall | saponify | expand, extend | set aside, suspend | muddy | transform | elevate, lift, raise | harshen | dinge | demonise, demonize | devilise, devilize, diabolise, diabolize | etherealize, etherialise | immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize | animate, animise, animize | clear | dynamise, dynamize | dynamise, dynamize | rarefy, sublimate, subtilize | volatilise, volatilize | uniformise, uniformize | symmetrise, symmetrize | eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize | denature | denature | denature | sanitise, sanitize | verbify | shift | sputter | draw | make | dope | prostrate | excite | energise, energize, excite | shake | outmode | spice, spice up | shorten | think | make | deflate | inflate | reflate | digitalise, digitalize, digitise, digitize | gelatinise, gelatinize | recombine | effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize | masculinise, masculinize, virilise, virilize | masculinize | disharmonize, dissonate | sexualise, sexualize | schematise, schematize | patent | constitutionalise, constitutionalize | rationalise, rationalize | plasticise, plasticize | rarefy | paganise, paganize | incandesce | deaminate, deaminize | angulate | circularize | sensitise, sensitize | sensitise, sensitize | depolarise, depolarize | intensify | isomerise, isomerize | legitimate | evaporate, vaporise | industrialise, industrialize | opacify | opsonize | militarise, militarize | nationalise, nationalize | recommend | sentimentalise, sentimentalize | solemnise, solemnize | territorialise, territorialize | transaminate | glorify, spiritualize, transfigure | unsanctify | vesiculate | visualise, visualize | variegate | ventilate | vivify | vulgarise, vulgarize | supple | professionalise, professionalize | smut | still | weaponize | eroticize, sex up | piggyback | port | lifehack | cloud | blur, confuse, obnubilate, obscure | moderate, tame, tone down | obfuscate | synchronise, synchronize | mince, moderate, soften | militarise, militarize | break down, crush | fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out | disturb, touch | dull | blunt, dull | sharpen | coarsen | loosen | loosen, undo, untie | barb | string | straighten, straighten out | bring | amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix, unify | charge | put | clean, make clean | begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | depress, lower | deform | break, break up | alter | adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament | humanise, humanize | humble | alienate, disaffect, estrange | right | desensitise, desensitize | deodorise, deodorize, deodourise | develop | blur | blind | change intensity | change taste | exchange, interchange, replace, substitute | capture | add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend | reestablish, reinstate, restore | liberalise, liberalize | compensate, correct, redress, right | democratise, democratize | neutralize | corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate | loosen, relax | unify, unite | flocculate | turn | cohere ... show more.
cause: change.
derivation: change | adjustment, alteration, modification | change | alteration, change, modification | changer, modifier | change | change | alterable | modifiable.
Dutch: converteren, changeren, altereren, herscheppen, modificeren, omzetten, variëren, veranderen, wijzigen
Moby 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 ... show more.
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