THESAURUS
modulate
abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, allay, alleviate, alter, ameliorate, assuage, attemper, balance, bank the fire, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, blunt, bottom out, box in, break, break up, change, chasten, checker, chop, chop and change, circumscribe, come about, come around, come round, condition, constrain, control, convert, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, deviate, diminish, diverge, diversify, downplay, dull, extenuate, fit, flop, haul around, hedge, hedge about, improve, inflect, intonate, jibe, keep within bounds, lay, leaven, lenify, lessen, lighten, limit, lower, meliorate, mitigate, moderate, modify, mutate, narrow, obtund, overthrow, palliate, play down, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, reduce, reduce the temperature, refit, reform, regulate, regulate by, remake, renew, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, season, set, set conditions, set limits, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, slacken, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, stifle, subdue, subvert, suppress, swerve, tack, take a turn, tame, temper, tone down, tune, tune down, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, underplay, vary, veer, warp, weaken, work a change, worsen
ROGET THESAURUS
modulate
Change
VB
change, alter, vary, wax and wane,
modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume, work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce, transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume, metamorphose, ring the changes, innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse, disturb, convert into.
Qualification
VB
qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper, waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain), equivocate (sophistry), depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect), allow for, make allowance for, admit exceptions, take into account,
modulate, moderate, temper, season, leaven, take exception.