improve
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
improve/ɪmˈpruːv/
▶verb
- 1 make or become better.
■ (improve on/upon) achieve or produce something better than.
- 2 (as adj. improving) giving moral or intellectual benefit.
– derivatives
improvability noun,
improvable adjective,
improver noun.
improvability noun,
improvable adjective,
improver noun.
– origin C16 (as emprowe or improwe): from Anglo-Norman Fr. emprower, based on OFr. prou ‘profit’.
'improve' also found in these Oxford entries:
additive
- aerobic
- Ampakine
- amyl nitrate
- Bates method
- batten
- better
- boost
- bootstrap
- bounce
- bring
- buy
- complement
- conditioner
- contrast medium
- cosmetic
- cost accounting
- crash-test
- cross-train
- curry
- dioptric
- division
- drogue
- economic migrant
- edify
- enhance
- enrich
- eye
- facelift
- face pack
- Feldenkrais method
- fenestration
- gentrify
- gild
- gym
- Hellerwork
- help
- hobday
- initiative
- insole
- intervention
- ionizer
- job
- keep-fit
- landscape
- leg-up
- look
- meliorate
- mend
