'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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodate,
- acculturate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- advance,
- alter,
- ameliorate,
- amend,
- apprentice,
- be changed,
- be converted into,
- be renewed,
- benefit,
- benefit from,
- best,
- better,
- boost,
- bottom out,
- brace up,
- break,
- break in,
- break up,
- breed,
- bring forward,
- bring up,
- cap,
- capitalize on,
- cash in on,
- change,
- checker,
- chop,
- chop and change,
- civilize,
- come about,
- come along,
- come around,
- come on,
- come round,
- complete,
- condition,
- convalesce,
- convert,
- correct,
- crown,
- culminate,
- cultivate,
- deform,
- degenerate,
- denature,
- deteriorate,
- develop,
- deviate,
- discipline,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- do to perfection,
- drill,
- edify,
- edit,
- educate,
- elevate,
- emend,
- enhance,
- enlighten,
- enrich,
- exceed,
- excel,
- exercise,
- exploit,
- fatten,
- favor,
- fetch up,
- fit,
- fix up,
- flop,
- form,
- forward,
- foster,
- further,
- gain,
- gain ground,
- gain strength,
- get ahead,
- get along,
- get better,
- go ahead,
- go forward,
- go one better,
- go straight,
- graduate,
- groom,
- grow better,
- haul around,
- help,
- house-train,
- housebreak,
- illume,
- illumine,
- improve on,
- improve the occasion,
- improve upon,
- increase,
- irradiate,
- jibe,
- lard,
- lick into shape,
- lift,
- look up,
- make an improvement,
- make capital of,
- make hay,
- make headway,
- make progress,
- make strides,
- mature,
- meliorate,
- mend,
- mitigate,
- modernize,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mutate,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- outweigh,
- overbalance,
- overbear,
- overcome,
- overhaul,
- overpass,
- overthrow,
- overtop,
- perfect,
- perk up,
- pick up,
- practice,
- predominate,
- prepare,
- preponderate,
- prevail,
- profit by,
- progress,
- promote,
- put in tune,
- put right,
- put to advantage,
- put to school,
- qualify,
- raise,
- rally,
- re-create,
- ready,
- realign,
- rear,
- rebuild,
- recondition,
- reconstruct,
- recover,
- recruit,
- rectify,
- recuperate,
- redeem,
- redesign,
- redress,
- refine,
- refine upon,
- refit,
- reform,
- refurbish,
- rehabilitate,
- rehearse,
- remake,
- remedy,
- remodel,
- renew,
- renovate,
- repair,
- reshape,
- restructure,
- revamp,
- revise,
- revive,
- ring the changes,
- ripen,
- rub up,
- send to school,
- set right,
- shape up,
- shift,
- shift the scene,
- show improvement,
- shuffle the cards,
- skyrocket,
- sleep it off,
- socialize,
- straighten out,
- strengthen,
- subvert,
- surpass,
- swerve,
- tack,
- take a turn,
- take advantage of,
- take in hand,
- take off,
- top,
- tower above,
- tower over,
- trade on,
- train,
- transcend,
- transfigure,
- transform,
- trump,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn into,
- turn the corner,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn to account,
- turn to profit,
- turn to use,
- turn upside down,
- undergo a change,
- update,
- upgrade,
- uplift,
- use to advantage,
- vary,
- veer,
- warp,
- work a change,
- worsen