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1. 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.
   see also genetically modified
   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

   verb + modify

   • have to
   • need to

   preposition

   • for

   phrases

   • highly modified
   • in a modified form
   • modified to fit something

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2. 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.
3. 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.

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