Synonyms for modify
Definitions
- v. 1
To change part of.
Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.
Related words
- Word family
- modifiability modifier modification
Forms
- Past participle
- modified
e.g. modified → altered, changed, adjusted, affected…
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We modify or qualify a statement which might seem too strong; we modify it by some limitation, qualify it by some addition.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- affect Petrol prices affect us all in one way or another.
- adjust Tom tried to adjust the temperature of the shower.
- alter As the artist grows older his paintings may alter.
- amend The Diet is likely to amend this unpopular law.
- shape Ken'nichi made a pond in the shape of Lake Geneva.
- limit Brian intends to strictly limit the money he uses.
By length
- 4 letters
- vary2
- 5 letters
- shape1, limit2, alter2, adapt2, amend2
- 6 letters
- change1, affect2, adjust2, temper2, soften2, revamp2, rework2
- 7 letters
- correct2, qualify3
- 9 letters
- diversify4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vary2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- modifier
- Italiano
- modificare
- Español
- modificar
- Deutsch
- modifizieren
- Català
- modificar