Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modernize \Mod"ern*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Modernized}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Modernizing}.] [Cf. F. moderniser.]
   To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to
   cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
   --Percy.

Source : WordNet®

modernized
     adj : brought up to date; "modernized methods" [syn: {modernised}]