(modifies, ~ing, modified)
1.
If you ~ something, you change it slightly, usually in order to improve it.
The club members did agree to ~ their recruitment policy...
The plane was a modified version of the C-130.
VERB: V n, V-ed
modification (modifications)
Relatively minor modifications were required.
N-VAR
2.
A word or group of words that modifies another word describes or classifies something, or restricts the meaning of the word. (TECHNICAL)
It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they ~: we say ‘a good cry’, not ‘a cry good’.
VERB: V n