MODERNIZING Synonyms

• getting higher or more vigorous

• imparting vitality and energy

• pleasantly new or different

• tending to impart new life and vigor to

• the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something)

• bring something new to an environment

• periodic maintenance on a car or machine

• the act of improving by renewing and restoring

• travel past

• make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

• bring into an improved condition

• reassemble mentally

• build again

• cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically

• return to its original or usable and functioning condition

• do over, as of (part of) a house

• To develop again or differently.

• To intensify by a second process.

• To convert a neighbourhood by demolishing old buildings and building new ones, or by renovating existing ones.

• make brighter and prettier

• cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land

• develop youthful topographical features

• make younger or more youthful

• get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate

• become young again

• do over, as of (part of) a house

• cast or model anew

• restore to a previous or better condition

• make brighter and prettier

• give new life or energy to

• organize anew

• organize anew, as after a setback

• to patch up or renovate; repair or restore

• provide (a shoe) with a new vamp

• subject to a mathematical transformation

• change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

• change in outward structure or looks

• change from one form or medium into another

• convert (one form of energy) to another

• change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species

• increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)

• software that provides better performance than an earlier version did

• a reservation that is improved

• the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises

• hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did

• the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)

• rate higher; raise in value or esteem

• to improve what was old or outdated

• give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

• get better travel conditions

• give better travel conditions to

• become technologically advanced

• make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to

• make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation

• work out

• gain through experience

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• change the use of and make available or usable

• elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

• create by training and teaching

• be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest

• grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

• become technologically advanced

• cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development

• generate gradually

• grow emotionally or mature

• make visible by means of chemical solutions

• superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

• move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions

• move into a strategically more advantageous position

• elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

• happen

• expand in the form of a series

• periodic maintenance on a car or machine

• the act of improving by renewing and restoring

• travel past

• make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to