Definition of "modifies" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of modify. (verb)

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• "The point of the bill and of the law it modifies is not to expatriate people who kill."
• "The problem with dropping, though, isn't that the noun it modifies is too far away."
• "Wherever the word modifies a verb or an adjective or another adverb, an adverb should be used, and wherever the word, whatever its location in the sentence, modifies a noun or pronoun, an adjective should be used."