Definition of improve

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Improve (v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.

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Lard :: Lard (n.) To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard..
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color..
Misimprove :: Misimprove (v. t.) To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc..
Approvement :: Approvement (n.) Improvement of common lands, by inclosing and converting them to the uses of husbandry for the advantage of the lord of the manor..
Rapidity :: Rapidity (n.) The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of a current; rapidity of speech; rapidity of growth or improvement..
Capon :: Capon (n.) A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table..
Useful :: Useful (a.) Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts..
Disimprove :: Disimprove (v. t.) To make worse; -- the opposite of improve.
Benefit :: Benefit (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change..
Reform :: Reform (v. t.) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals..
Melioration :: Melioration (n.) The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement..
Meliorism :: Meliorism (n.) The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.
Meliorate :: Meliorate (v. t.) To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
Chassepot :: Chassepot (n.) A kind of breechloading, center-fire rifle, or improved needle gun..
Emendation :: Emendation (n.) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement..
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up..
Neglect :: Neglect (adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts..
Mechitarist :: Mechitarist (n.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.
Better :: Better (a.) To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise..
Mend :: Mend (v. i.) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
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