"modernizing" meaning in All languages combined

See modernizing on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more modernizing [comparative], most modernizing [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} modernizing (comparative more modernizing, superlative most modernizing)
  1. Reformist; tending to modernize.
    Sense id: en-modernizing-en-adj-kGpkERk1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 87 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: modernising

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} modernizing
  1. present participle and gerund of modernize Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: modernize
    Sense id: en-modernizing-en-verb-w~BYp4K9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: modernising

Alternative forms

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