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Improve

//ɪmˈpɹuːv// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something). transitive

    "Painting the woodwork will improve this house."

  2. 2
    To disprove or make void; to refute. obsolete

    "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."

  3. 3
    get better wordnet
  4. 4
    To become better. intransitive

    "I have improved since taking the tablets."

  5. 5
    To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure. obsolete

    "[W]hen he reherſed his preachinge and his doynges vnto the hye Apoſtles / they coulde improve no thinge […]"

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  1. 6
    to make better wordnet
  2. 7
    To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account. dated

    "to improve one's time;  to improve his means"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman emprouwer, from Old French en- + prou (“profit”), from Vulgar Latin prode (“advantageous, profitable”).

Etymology 2

From Latin improbō (“disapprove, reject”). Doublet of improbate.

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