Synonyms of modernizing

modernizing

verb

present participle of modernize

as in updating

to adapt to modern needs, taste, or usage

a proposal to modernize the old school and bring it into the 21st century

Synonyms & Similar Words

• updating
• redesigning
• streamlining
• remaking
• contemporizing
• reworking
• remodeling
• revising
• recasting
• reengineering
• refashioning
• redoing
• redeveloping
• revamping

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of modernizing

The ministry has previously announced hundreds of millions of euros of investments into modernizing the high-speed rail network, including this particular section running from Madrid to Seville. — Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026

Roth, who’s credited with modernizing the sheriff’s office, went on to serve another 18 years before retiring in 2009. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

Instead of building new duplicate facilities, CapEx is being spent on modernizing existing hubs to handle multi-modal volume. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026

The postwar model of a large welfare and regulatory state, run by a class of civil servants charged with modernizing the economy, tempering market forces and defining the common good, has run its course. — Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Technological dominance has been tilting toward Moscow of late, exposing Ukraine’s vulnerability to Russia’s relentlessly modernizing war machine. — Gerard Toal, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

But the modernizing economy also provided organized crime with new opportunities. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Intocable, Grupo Pesado and Salomón Robles are artists who marked an era, breaking barriers by modernizing what legendary norteño artists like Los Invasores de Nuevo León, Los Cadetes de Linares and Los Tigres del Norte had done. — Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2026

The facility upgrades add capacity while modernizing the processes used to build the seekers. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2026