Meaning of improve | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To disprove or make void; to refute.
   obsolete
2. To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
   transitive
3. To become better.
   intransitive
4. To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
   obsolete
5. to (cause to) become better, of higher quality etc. His work has greatly improved; They recently improved the design of that car. verbeter يُحَسِّن подобрявам melhorar zlepšit (se) verbessern forbedre βελτιώνω, βελτιώνομαιmejorar, perfeccionar parandama, paranema بهتر شدن parantaa améliorer לְשַפֵּר सुधारना, सुधरना poboljšati javul; javít; fejleszt meningkatkan, memperbaiki bæta, laga migliorare 良くする 개선하다 pagerinti, patobulinti, pagerėti uzlabot; pilnveidot; uzlaboties; pilnveidoties meningka...
   etc
6. To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
   dated
7. to produce something which is better, more useful etc than. I think I can improve on that suggestion. verbeter op يُدْخِل تَحْسينات على подобрявам melhorar zdokonalit, vylepšit verbessern forbedre δημιουργώ κτ. καλύτερο mejorar, perfeccionar täiustama بهتر کردن parantaa améliorer לְשַׁפֵּר से बेहतर करना to bolje (tovább)fejleszt memperbaiki bæta við, gera betur migliorare ～を改良する 개선하다 pagerinti, patobulinti uzlabot memperbaiki verbeterenforbedre, pynte påulepszyć سمون melhorar a ameliora улучш...
   etc
8. mejorar; adelantar; mejorarse, recuperarse; restablecerse.
9. To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better: Exercise can improve your health.
10. To increase the productivity or value of (land or property): improved the house by adding a bathroom.
11. To become better: Economic conditions are improving.
12. To make beneficial additions or changes: You can improve on the translation of that text.
13. to make or become better in quality; ameliorate
14. (tr) to make (buildings, land, etc) more valuable by additions or betterment
    tr
15. (intr; usually foll by on or upon) to achieve a better standard or quality in comparison (with): to improve on last year's crop.

Equivalents

Examples

“Painting the woodwork will improve this house.”

“Buying more servers would improve performance.”

“Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.”

“I have improved since taking the tablets.”

“The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.”

““My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.””

“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 […]”

“How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour.”

“[T]he court has alſo an opportunity, which it ſeldom fails to improve, […]”

“March 7, 1778, George Washington, letter True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.”

“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.”

“[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: […]”

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