Definitions for modify

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modify mod·i·fy

Spelling: [mod-uh-fahy]

IPA: /ˈmɒd əˌfaɪ/

Modify is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in modify (dfimoy).

Definitions for modify

verb (used with object)

1. to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend:
2. Grammar. (of a word, phrase, or clause) to stand in a syntactically subordinate relation to (another word, phrase, or clause), usually with descriptive, limiting, or particularizing meaning; be a modifier. In a good man, good modifies man.
3. to be the modifier or attribute of.
4. to change (a vowel) by umlaut.
5. to reduce or lessen in degree or extent; moderate; soften:

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become modified.

Origin of modify

1350-1400; Middle English modifien Middle French modifier Latin modificāre to impose a rule or pattern, regulate, restrain. See mode¹,

Examples for modify

If the senior rabbis had the will, Michaelson said, they could reinterpret the Torah and modify Halakhic, or religious, law.

We modify it in these degenerate days to "blood will have money:"

Like Berners-Lee, Cunningham made his basic software available for anyone to modify and use.

As respects this allocation, how would I modify that instrument?

He found cause to modify the excellent impression he had received at first.

The result of this attempt to modify the scheme was the Indian mutiny.

If Truffaut had lived to see Platoon, the best film of 1986, he might have wanted to modify his opinion.

Or, you can modify that rule by observing that each work of art generates its own unique rules….

McNaughton says Pennsylvania has no plans to modify its existing cocktail.

It is his to choose his environment; it is his to modify his environment when he cannot leave it.