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Synonyms for improves
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : im-proov |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpruv |
Top 10 synonyms for improves Other synonyms for the word improves
- ameliorate
- amend
- augment
- civilize
- come around
- convalesce
- cultivate
- doctor up
- edit
- elevate
- emend
- gain ground
- look up
- make strides
- meliorate
- mend
- perk up
- pick up
- polish
- promote
- purify
- raise
- rally
- recover
- rectify
- recuperate
- refine
- reform
- revamp
- revise
- rise
- set right
- shape up
- sharpen
- skyrocket
- straighten out
- take off
- touch up
- turn the corner
- update
- upgrade
Définition of improves
Origin :- late 15c., "to use to one's profit, to increase (income)," from Anglo-French emprouwer "to turn to profit" (late 13c.), from Old French en-, causative prefix, + prou "profit," from Latin prode "advantageous" (see proud). Spelling with -v- was rare before 17c. Meaning "to raise to a better quality or condition" first recorded 1610s. Phrase improve the occasion retains the etymological sense. Meaning "to turn land to profit" (by clearing it, erecting buildings, etc.) was in Anglo-French (13c.) and was retained in the American colonies.
- verb make or become better
- A word about Autun itself, a town that improves marvellously on acquaintance.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- Motherhood, that improves and perfects most women, has personally wrecked her.
- Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
- Nor does he distinguish between the suffering which improves and the suffering which only punishes and deters.
- Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
- Then every Athenian improves and elevates them; all with the exception of myself; and I alone am their corrupter?
- Extract from : « Apology » by Plato
- "Really, it improves him very much," said Hester to herself.
- Extract from : « Paul Prescott's Charge » by Horatio Alger
- It improves the pronunciation and trains or keeps the ear in practice.
- Extract from : « The Aural System » by Anonymous
- As a rule, he neither alters nor improves, any more than the birds do.
- Extract from : « Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection » by Alfred Russel Wallace
- This kind of memory, he adds, now improves or increases with him from year to year.
- Extract from : « A Book for All Readers » by Ainsworth Rand Spofford
- The only polish that improves carving is that which comes of use.
- Extract from : « Wood-Carving » by George Jack
- Ashuretililani, king of Assyria, improves Nabu's temple at Calah, 229.
- Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
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