modernise

present singular third person modernises · participle present modernising · participle past modernised · past modernised

1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of modernize.

   The principal locomotive workshops now in use are those of the former Rhymney Railway at Caerphilly, modernised and re-equipped to meet the requirements of the new regime.

   1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, pages 159, 161

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   The same applies to the toilets. Simply the ability to remove those labels that read "do not flush while the train is at a station" (a sticker that dates a train as 'old') modernises them no end.

   2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 50