Dictionary Entry
improve
improve is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To disprove or make void; to refute. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To disprove or make void; to refute.
- 2transitive verb
To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
- 3transitive verb
To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.
- 6intransitive verb
To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
- 7intransitive verb
To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
- 8intransitive verb
To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
- 9verb
get better
"The weather improved toward evening"
Synonyms
- 10verb
to make better
"The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
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