verb
- Make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to.
- usage: "You should overhaul your car engine"; "overhaul the health care system"
- Become technologically advanced.
- usage: "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
adjective
- Brought up to date.
- usage: "modernized methods"
- synonyms: modernised
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