Definition of modify | Collins English Dictionary

modify (ˈmɒdɪˌfaɪ)

(mainly tr)

to change the structure, character, intent, etc, of
to make less extreme or uncompromising ⇒ to modify a demand
grammar (of a word or group of words) to bear the relation of modifier to (another word or group of words)
linguistics to change (a vowel) by umlaut
(intr) to be or become modified

ˈmodiˌfiable adjective ˌmodiˌfiaˈbility ˈmodiˌfiableness noun

C14: from Old French modifier, from Latin modificāre to limit, control, from modus measure + facere to make

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British English: modify If you modify something, you change it slightly in order to improve it.He modified the recipe and it became one of the restaurant's most popular dishes.ˈmɒdɪˌfaɪ VERB He modified the recipe and it became one of the restaurant's most popular dishes.
Spanish: modificar v
French: modifier vt
German: modifizieren v
Chinese: 修改 v
Arabic: يُعَدِّلُ vt
Portuguese: modificar v
Russian: модифицировать v
Croatian: modificirati v
Czech: modifikovat v
Danish: ændre v
Dutch: wijzigen v
Finnish: muokata v
Greek: τροποποιώ v
Italian: modificare v
Japanese: 変更する v
Korean: 수정하다 v
Norwegian: endre v
Polish: zmodyfikować v modyfikować
Brazilian Portuguese: modificar v
European Spanish: modificar v
Swedish: ändra v
Thai: เปลี่ยนแปลงแก้ไข v
Turkish: değişiklik yapmak v
Vietnamese: sửa đổi v

Anyway the upshot is they want me to take him to an educational psychologist to see if they need to ` modify the school programme for him '.
Bénédicte Newland and Pascale Smets, AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR (2005)
Brown may also modify the camera to peer into solid materials.
New Scientist (1998)
Here, very concretely, is an example where he shows he is ready to modify the act.
canada.com (2004)
Researchers said that drugs may be developed to modify the immune cells that react to them.
Times, Sunday Times (2002)
This is the power we have to reshape our picture of ourselves, that is, our ability to modify our self-concept by using our imagination.
Page, Michael, Visualization - the key to fulfilment (1990)