Verb
modernise (third-person singular simple present modernises, present participle modernising, simple past and past participle modernised)
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of modernize.
1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, pages 159, 161:The principal locomotive workshops now in use are those of the former Rhymney Railway at Caerphilly, modernised and re-equipped to meet the requirements of the new regime.
2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 50:The same applies to the toilets. Simply the ability to remove those labels that read "do not flush while the train is at a station" (a sticker that dates a train as 'old') modernises them no end.