modifying

Verb

modify (third-person singular simple present modifies, present participle modifying, simple past and past participle modified)

1. (transitive) To change part of.
   • Her publisher advised her to modify a few parts of the book to make it easier to read.
2. (intransitive) To be or become modified.
3. (transitive) To set bounds to; to moderate.
4. (transitive) To qualify the meaning of.
   • There is inherently no ordering to the modification and no hierarchy of modification: that is, both adjectives modify the substantive and both apply equally to the substantive[…]1977, Linda R. Waugh, A Semantic Analysis of Word Order: Position of the Adjective in French

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