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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To disprove or make void; to refute.
- transitive verb. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
- transitive verb. To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.
- intransitive verb. To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
- intransitive verb. To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
- intransitive verb. To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
- verb. get better
"The weather improved toward evening"
- verb. to make better
"The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
Synonyms
ameliorate, better, meliorate, amend
Common word forms
improved, improver, improves, improving, improvement
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