improve

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make (something) better

   To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).

   • Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
   • Buying more servers would improve performance.
2. 2

   To become better.

   • I have improved since taking the tablets.
   • The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.
3. 3

   To use or employ to good purpose

   To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

   • to improve one's time;  to improve his means
   • We shall especially honour God, by discharging faithfully those offices which God hath entrusted us with: by improving diligently those talents which God hath committed to us
   • [A] hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved […]
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   1. 4

      To disprove or make void

      To disprove or make void; to refute.

      • One ſayth this and a nother that / but can not agre. Nether can any of them make ſo ſtronge a reaſon vvhich a nother can not improve.
   2. 5

      To disapprove of

      To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.

      • [W]hen he reherſed his preachinge and his doynges vnto the hye Apoſtles / they coulde improve no thinge […]
      • You would improve his negligence, too oft to ease retir’d: […]

The neighborhood

• synonymbetter
• synonymbatten
• synonymenhance
• synonymaprimorate (non-native speakers’ English (chiefly Portuguese))
• synonymamend
• synonymhone
• synonymimprove
• synonymmeliorate
• synonymrefine
• synonymget better
• synonymlook up
• synonymameliorate
• antonymdeteriorateantonym(s) of
• antonymworsen
• antonymaggravate
• antonymmake matters worse
• antonympejorate
• neighborrepair
• neighborempower
• neighboralter
• neighboraugment
• neighborbling out
• neighborprettify
• neighborsex up
• neighborspark up
• neighborspiff up
• neighborspice
• neighborspice up
• neighborspruce up