'Improve' definitions:

Definition of 'improve'

(from WordNet)
verb
To make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen]
verb
Get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]

Definition of 'Improve'

From: GCIDE
  • Improve \Im*prove"\, v. t. [Pref. im- not + prove: cf. L. improbare, F. improuver.]
  • 1. To disprove or make void; to refute. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. [Obs.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
  • When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Improve'

From: GCIDE
  • Improve \Im*prove"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Improved; p. pr. & vb. n. Improving.] [Pref. in- in + prove, in approve. See Approve, Prove.]
  • 1. To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land. --Donne. [1913 Webster]
  • I love not to improve the honor of the living by impairing that of the dead. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • We shall especially honor God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us. --Barrow. [1913 Webster]
  • A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • The court seldom fails to improve the opportunity. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
  • How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
  • Those moments were diligently improved. --Gibbon. [1913 Webster]
  • True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion. --Washington. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • We all have, I fear, . . . not a little improved the wretched inheritance of our ancestors. --Bp. Porteus.
  • Syn: To better; meliorate; ameliorate; advance; heighten; mend; correct; rectify; amend; reform. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Improve'

From: GCIDE
  • Improve \Im*prove"\, v. i.
  • 1. To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health. [1913 Webster]
  • We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse. "Domitian improved in cruelty." --Milner. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves. [1913 Webster]
  • To improve on or To improve upon, to make useful additions or amendments to, or changes in; to bring nearer to perfection; as, to improve on the mode of tillage. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'improve'

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