From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Modernize \Mod"ern*ize\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Modernized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Modernizing}.] [Cf. F. moderniser.] To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. --Percy.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: brought up to date; "modernized methods" [syn: {modernised}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "modernized": a la mode, advanced, avant-garde, contemporary, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, in, mod, modern, modernistic, modish, newfashioned, now, present-day, present-time, progressive, streamlined, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out
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