Associations to the word «Improve»

Wiktionary

IMPROVE, verb. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
IMPROVE, verb. (intransitive) To become better.
IMPROVE, verb. (obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
IMPROVE, verb. (obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
IMPROVE, verb. (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

Dictionary definition

IMPROVE, verb. To make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes".
IMPROVE, verb. Get better; "The weather improved toward evening".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne