Usually means: Changing something to improve it.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. modifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. modifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. modifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. modifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Modifying, modifying: Wordnik
  6. modifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. modifying: Wiktionary
  8. Modifying, modifying: Dictionary.com
  9. modifying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Modifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Modifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. modifying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. modifying: FreeDictionary.org
  14. modifying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Modifying: Marquetry Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modifying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modifying: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modifying: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See modify as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (modify)

verb:  (transitive) To change part of.
verb:  (intransitive) To be or become modified.
verb:  (transitive) To set bounds to; to moderate.
verb:  (grammar, transitive) To qualify the meaning of.
▸ Also see modify

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