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improve
verb as in make or become better
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Example Sentences
She says her mental wellbeing improved massively when she came off the pill, which she had been taking for around a decade.
The team is also being promised workplace reform - including improved staff perks.
Coverage of the firefighters’ battle to improve containment over the Eaton and Palisades fires, including stories about the latest death count and victim frustration.
With fire containment improving and winds dying down, some residents are being allowed back into neighborhoods devastated by the Eaton and Palisades fires.
Watson, who won 56 England caps, has now said he has been told by his surgeon to retire after the back injury he suffered in January 2024 "failed to improve how we thought it would".
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When To Use
What are other ways to say improve?
The verb improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge). The more formal verb, ameliorate, implies improving oppressive, unjust, or difficult conditions: to ameliorate working conditions. To better is to improve conditions which, though not bad, are unsatisfying: to better an attempt, oneself (as by gaining a higher salary).
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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