modernize
    v 1: make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to;
         "You should overhaul your car engine"; "overhaul the health
         care system" [syn: overhaul, modernize, modernise]
    2: become technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are
       now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing
       rapidly" [syn: modernize, modernise, develop]

Modernize \Mod"ern*ize\, v. t. [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.
   [1913 Webster]