modify

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< Middle English modifien < French modifier < Latin modificare (to limit, control, regulate, deponent) < modificari (to measure off, set bound to, moderate) < modus (measure) + facere (to make); see mode.

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Infinitive
to modify

Third person singular
modifies

Simple past
modified

Past participle
modified

Present participle
modifying

to modify (third-person singular simple present modifies, present participle modifying, simple past and past participle modified)

  1. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  2. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

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