Verb
To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. Ted Stevens
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation. Akihito
Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films. Jack Valenti
The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that. Maggie Q
When you automate an industry you modernize it when you automate a life you primitivize it. Eric Hoffer
Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace Source: Internet