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improve - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'improve' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Improve [ v. i.]
- To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
- To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
- To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
2 . Improve [ v. t.]
- To disprove or make void; to refute.
- To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
- To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
- 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.
- To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.

Meaning of 'improve' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . improve [ v]
Meaning (1):
- to make better
Example in sentence:
  • The editor improved the manuscript with his changes
Meaning (2):
- get better
Example in sentence:
  • The weather improved toward evening