modify
verb OPAL W
/ˈmɒdɪfaɪ/
/ˈmɑːdɪfaɪ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they modify | /ˈmɒdɪfaɪ/ /ˈmɑːdɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it modifies | /ˈmɒdɪfaɪz/ /ˈmɑːdɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple modified | /ˈmɒdɪfaɪd/ /ˈmɑːdɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle modified | /ˈmɒdɪfaɪd/ /ˈmɑːdɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form modifying | /ˈmɒdɪfaɪɪŋ/ /ˈmɑːdɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- modify something to change something slightly, especially in order to make it more suitable for a particular purpose synonym adapt
- Patients are taught how to modify their diet.
- We found it cheaper to modify existing equipment rather than buy new.
- The software we use has been modified for us.
- The law has been significantly modified since that ruling.
- heavily/highly modified
- A modified version of my article was published in the newspaper.
- Permissions are arranged so that you can't delete or modify files.
Extra Examples- Check for the most recently modified version of a file.
- Stories and characters had to be modified to fit a 21st-century audience.
- The original text has been modified so radically that it is barely recognizable.
- These ideas are still used today, though in a slightly modified form.
- We can modify the service for local conditions.
- You may need to modify your plans a little.
- using a highly modified version of the program
- The office software has been modified over the years.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- considerably
- drastically
- extensively
- …
- have to
- need to
- for
- highly modified
- in a modified form
- modified to fit something
- …
- modify something to make something less extreme synonym adjust
- She refused to modify her behaviour.
- He listened to the arguments and modified his view of the party.
- The social worker at first aimed to get Mrs R to modify her behaviour, without success.
- modify something (grammar) a word, such as an adjective or adverb, that modifies another word or group of words describes it or limits its meaning in some way
- In ‘walk slowly’, the adverb ‘slowly’ modifies the verb ‘walk’.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French modifier, from Latin modificare, from modus ‘measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by mete.