modernize

The first attempts to modernize the process were made by Thomas Edison and scientists working with American inventor.

He had no precedents by which to guide his steps, no example that he might modernize and follow.

Inside their homeland, the communists are trying to maintain and modernize huge military forces.

We must modernize our unemployment insurance and establish a high-level commission on automation.

And again, to help build or modernize 6,000 schools, to get students out of trailers and into high-tech classrooms.

Mr. Lethbridge had the good sense to leave the house practically as he found it, and had not attempted to modernize it in any way.