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modifying

verb , present participle of modify

Synonyms and Antonyms of modifying

1 to limit the meaning of (as a noun)

adjectives are words that modify nouns, while adverbs can modify adjectives and verbs

Synonyms of modifying

Words Related to modifying

altering, coloring, distorting, misrepresenting, misstating, perverting, twisting, warping

Near Antonyms of modifying

broadening, expanding, widening

2 to make different in some way

he modified the appliance so that it would run more quietly

Synonyms of modifying

altering, changing, making over, recasting, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, revising, reworking, varying

Words Related to modifying

deforming, metamorphosing, mutating

regenerating, revolutionizing, transfiguring, transforming, transmuting

commuting, converting, exchanging

rejiggering, retooling

Antonyms of modifying

fixing, freezing, setting, stabilizing

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