modernize
verb (used with object)
to make modern; give a new or modern character or appearance to: to modernize a kitchen.
were modernizing
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past progressiveof modernize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Not that we were modernizing them, but we just cut them as if they were just being cut now, today.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2011
