See modify in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "to change part of",
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"roman": "izmenjátʹ",
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"word": "изменя́ть"
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"roman": "modificírovatʹ",
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"word": "модифици́ровать"
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"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "modificai"
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"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "modificar"
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"sense": "to change part of",
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"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "modifiera"
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"word": "magsaayos"
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"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "སྒྱུར་བཅོས་གཏོང"
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"word": "བཟོ་བཅོས་རྒྱག"
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"To be or become modified."
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"(intransitive) To be or become modified."
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"word": "променям се"
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"word": "muokkautua"
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"roman": "metatrépomai",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "μετατρέπομαι"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "módosul"
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"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "terkoprek"
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"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "a modifica"
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"roman": "izmenjátʹsja",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "изменя́ться"
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"roman": "modificírovatʹsja",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "модифици́роваться"
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"word": "değişmek"
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"(transitive) To set bounds to; to moderate."
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "modificírovatʹ",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "модифици́ровать"
},
{
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Campidanese Sardinian",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "modificai"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "modificar"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "-sahihisha"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "modifiera"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "magsaayos"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "isaayos"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "magpabago"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "ipabago"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "magmodipika"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "modipikahin"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "sgyur bcos gtong",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "སྒྱུར་བཅོས་གཏོང"
},
{
"code": "bo",
"lang": "Tibetan",
"roman": "bzo bcos rgyag",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "བཟོ་བཅོས་རྒྱག"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "modifiye etmek"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "değiştirmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "modyfikuváty",
"sense": "to change part of",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "модифікува́ти"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetan",
"sense": "to change part of",
"word": "canbiare"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izmenjam se",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "изменям се"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "promenjam se",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "променям се"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "muokkautua"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "metatrépomai",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "μετατρέπομαι"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "módosul"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "terkoprek"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"english": "se",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "a modifica"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izmenjátʹsja",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "изменя́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "modificírovatʹsja",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "модифици́роваться"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to be or become modified",
"word": "değişmek"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(grammar) to qualify another word or phrase",
"word": "määrittää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(grammar) to qualify another word or phrase",
"word": "modifier"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "prosdiorízo",
"sense": "(grammar) to qualify another word or phrase",
"word": "προσδιορίζω"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shūshoku suru",
"sense": "(grammar) to qualify another word or phrase",
"word": "修飾する"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "susikada",
"sense": "(grammar) to qualify another word or phrase",
"word": "수식하다"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"note": "adicio (in the passive, + dative)",
"sense": "(grammar) to qualify another word or phrase"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(grammar) to qualify another word or phrase",
"word": "modificar"
}
],
"word": "modify"
}
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