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Improve   /ɪmprˈuv/   Listen
Improve

verb
(past & past part. improved; pres. part. improving)
1.
To make better.  Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, meliorate.  Antonym: worsen.
2.
Get better.  Synonyms: ameliorate, better, meliorate.  Antonym: worsen.



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"Improve" Quotes from Famous Books



... thinks I'm wrong—well my address is given. This challenge includes the editor. I sincerely hope you will improve your magazine—Edwin C. Magnuson, 1205 ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various

... plodded through the forest, A'tim muttered: "Now I shall surely have this vain old Bull. The Death Coulee is close to Porcupine Water, and that is not far. Shag shall eat of the Death Flower, which I have called the Fur Flower, to improve his appearance; and when he is dead I will eat of him to ...
— The Outcasts • W. A. Fraser

... and that which skirts the Seine, formerly called the Cours de la Reine, is a large piece of turf, where, in fine weather, and especially on Sundays, the Parisian youths amuse themselves at foot-ball, prison-bars, and long tennis. Here, too, boys and girls assemble, and improve their growth and vigour by dancing, and a variety of healthful diversions; while their relations and friends, seated on the grass, enjoy this interesting sight, and form around each group a circle which is presently increased by numbers ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon

... cold dark deck and across a slippery plank to the mud bank does not improve matters. Apparently we have this exhilarating entertainment all to ourselves, for the rest of the ...
— Round the Wonderful World • G. E. Mitton

... Cis started in to improve the kitchen. Keeping the ladder an extra day by special permission she climbed it to wash the eight small panes of the window, after which she hung at either side of them a strip of the blue-tinted cheesecloth. But when Barber saw the curtains, ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates


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