Another word for improve
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Verb
To advance to a more desirable state
- To raise to a higher grade or standard:
- To replace (a software program) with a more recently released, enhanced version.
- To replace (a hardware device) with one that provides better performance.
- To make better; improve.
- To grow better.
- To give assistance to (someone); make it easier for (someone) to do something; aid:
- To give material or financial aid to:
- To wait on, as in a store or restaurant:
- Greater in excellence or higher in quality.
- More useful, suitable, or desirable:
- More highly skilled or adept:
- To change for the better; improve:
- To alter the wording of (a legal document, for example) so as to make more suitable or acceptable.
- To enrich (soil), especially by mixing in organic matter or sand.
- To make or become better; improve:
See also:To regain one's health
- To return to health or strength; recover.
- To recover from financial loss.
- To recover (a financial loss).
- To get back (something lost or taken away), especially by making an effort:
- To search for, find, and bring back:
- To get back control or possession of (land) by military conquest or legal action.
- To call together for a common purpose; assemble:
- To reassemble and restore to order:
- To rouse or revive from inactivity or decline:
- To become more lively or enthusiastic or upright.
- To make repairs or restoration to; fix.
- To reform or correct:
- To improve in health or condition:
- To come into possession or use of; acquire:
- To attain in competition or struggle; win:
- To obtain through effort or merit; achieve:
- To return to health and strength after illness; recuperate.
- (idiomatic) To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first.
- To regain consciousness after a faint etc.
- (curling) Any shot that curls around another rock.
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Another word for improve
Verb
To make better
- To subject (a substance) to distillation.
- To separate (a distillate) by distillation.
- To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify by or as if by distillation.
- To correct or set right; adjust:
- To restore to proper condition or working order; repair:
- To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare:
- To examine or go over carefully for needed repairs.
- To dismantle in order to make repairs.
- To slacken (a line) or to release and separate the blocks of (a tackle).
- To fit (a worn automotive tire) with a new tread.
- To make or do over again, especially with minimal revision; rehash:
- A tire that has been fitted with a new tread.
- To replace (a lost or damaged organ or part) by the formation of new tissue.
- To form, construct, or create anew:
- To give new life or energy to; revitalize:
- To fashion again or anew.
- To subject to gentrification:
- To undergo gentrification:
- To restore to an earlier condition, as by repairing or remodeling.
- To impart new vigor to; revive.
- To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education:
- To restore to good condition:
- To cause to be regarded again in a positive way; reestablish esteem for:
- To make or put right:
- To remove the errors or mistakes from:
- To indicate or mark the errors in:
- To set right; correct:
- To correct by calculation or adjustment:
- To refine or purify, especially by distillation.
- To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise:
- To transport by air:
- To revoke by taking back; rescind:
- To move to a higher position; elevate:
- To set in an upright or erect position:
- To erect or build:
- To improve by alteration, correction of error, or removal of defects; put into a better form or condition:
- To abolish abuse or malpractice in:
- To put an end to (an abuse or wrong).
- To raise to a more important or responsible job or rank.
- To advance (a student) to the next higher grade.
- To contribute to the progress or growth of; further.
- To organize again or anew.
- To undergo or effect changes in organization.
- To make new or as if new again; restore:
- To take up again; resume:
- To repeat so as to reaffirm:
- To patch up or restore; renovate.
- To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example).
- To vamp (a shoe) anew.
- To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment:
- To expand or enlarge:
- To aid in the growth of; strengthen:
- An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view:
- A picture depicting an expanse of scenery.
- The branch of art dealing with the representation of natural scenery.
- To make better; improve.
- To grow better.
- To develop the mental, moral, or social capabilities of, especially by schooling or instruction.
- To provide with knowledge or training in a particular area or for a particular purpose:
- To provide with information, as in an effort to gain support for a position or to influence behavior:
- To raise from barbarism to an enlightened stage of development; bring out of a primitive or savage state.
- To educate in matters of culture and refinement; make more polished or sophisticated.
- To improve by critical editing:
- To prepare (written material) for publication or presentation, as by correcting, revising, or adapting.
- To prepare an edition of for publication:
- To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable:
- (idiomatic) To make slight corrections or adjustments; to fill in or perfect.
- (idiomatic) To fondle or to grope someone, usually in an inappropriate way.
- A slight correction or adjustment.
- To make larger in size.
- To make larger in scope or effect; expand:
- To become larger; grow or swell.
- To rid of impurities:
- To rid of foreign or objectionable elements:
- To free from moral or spiritual defilement:
- To reduce to a pure state; purify.
- To remove by purifying.
- To free from coarse, unsuitable, or immoral characteristics:
- To make smooth and shiny by rubbing or chemical action.
- To remove the outer layers from (grains of rice) by rotation in drums.
- To refine or remove flaws from; perfect or complete:
- To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; lift.
- To increase the amount or intensity of:
- To promote to a higher rank.
- To raise to a higher grade or standard:
- To replace (a software program) with a more recently released, enhanced version.
- To replace (a hardware device) with one that provides better performance.
- To alter so as to be up to date:
- To inform (someone) with the latest information.
- Information that updates something or someone.
- To alter or edit (a text).
- To reconsider and change or modify:
- To study again (academic material, for example), as for a test; review.
- To improve and prepare (land), as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; till.
- To loosen or dig soil around (growing plants).
- To grow or tend (a plant or crop).
- To make rich or richer.
- To make fuller, more meaningful, or more rewarding:
- To add fertilizer to.
- To improve or augment, especially in effectiveness, value, or attractiveness:
- To change for the better; improve:
- To alter the wording of (a legal document, for example) so as to make more suitable or acceptable.
- To enrich (soil), especially by mixing in organic matter or sand.
- To make repairs or restoration to; fix.
- To reform or correct:
- To improve in health or condition:
- To make or become better; improve:
- Greater in excellence or higher in quality.
- More useful, suitable, or desirable:
- More highly skilled or adept:
To become better
- To become more lively or enthusiastic or upright.
- a method of selecting a daily work crew, as of longshoremen, from an assembled group of those available
- (intransitive) To board or mount (something), especially a vehicle.
- (intransitive) To be successful.
- (intransitive, with "with") To progress (with).
- Something offered to allure or attract; an inducement, especially to buy.
- A sexual or romantic approach or proposal.
- Having reached full natural growth or development:
- Having reached a desired or final condition; ripe:
- Having or showing characteristics, such as patience and prudence, considered typical of well-balanced adulthood:
- Soft, sweet, juicy, and full-flavored because of ripeness:
- Suggesting softness or sweetness:
- Flavorful and mild or smooth, as from being properly matured:
- To become greater or larger.
- To multiply; reproduce.
- To make greater or larger.
- To make or become wide or wider.
- To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity:
- To add an augment to.
- To become augmented.
- An advantageous gain or return; benefit.
- Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value.
- To make a gain or profit.
- (idiomatic) To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first.
- To regain consciousness after a faint etc.
- (curling) Any shot that curls around another rock.
- To come into possession or use of; acquire:
- To attain in competition or struggle; win:
- To obtain through effort or merit; achieve:
- To make repairs or restoration to; fix.
- To reform or correct:
- To improve in health or condition:
- To call together for a common purpose; assemble:
- To reassemble and restore to order:
- To rouse or revive from inactivity or decline:
- To increase in size by a natural process.
- To expand; gain:
- To increase in amount or degree; intensify:
- To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment:
- To expand or enlarge:
- To aid in the growth of; strengthen:
- To get back (something lost or taken away), especially by making an effort:
- To search for, find, and bring back:
- To get back control or possession of (land) by military conquest or legal action.
- To make new or as if new again; restore:
- To take up again; resume:
- To repeat so as to reaffirm:
- To replace (a lost or damaged organ or part) by the formation of new tissue.
- To form, construct, or create anew:
- To give new life or energy to; revitalize:
- To make or become better; improve:
- (idiomatic) to become farther from another traveling the same course.
- Forward or onward movement, as toward a destination:
- Development, advancement, or improvement, as toward a goal:
- A ceremonial journey made by a sovereign through his or her realm.
- To cause to move forward:
- To put forward; propose or suggest:
- To aid the growth or progress of:
- (literally) To improve.
- (idiomatic) To recover from illness or other incapacitation.
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Synonym Study
- Ameliorate implies improving to some degree a condition that is bad, oppressive, or intolerable to begin with to ameliorate the lot of the poor
- Improve and better both imply a correcting or advancing of something that is not in itself necessarily bad, the former by supplying a lack or want to improve a method and the latter by seeking something more satisfying he's left his job to better himself
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