improve /im-proovˈ/

1. To make better
2. To make more valuable (esp by cultivating or building)
3. To make good use of (archaic)
4. To make use of (land, etc), to occupy (US; archaic)
5. To increase (obsolete)

1. To become better
2. To make progress
3. To make improvements
4. To grow in price or value
5. To follow up with something better (with on or upon)
6. To increase (obsolete)

improvabilˈity or improvˈableness noun

improvˈable adjective

improvˈably adverb

improveˈment noun

1. The act of improving
2. A change for the better
3. A thing changed, or introduced in changing, for the better
4. A better thing substituted for, or following, one not so good (often with on)

improvˈer noun

1. Someone or something that improves
2. An apprentice in the last year of his apprenticeship

improvˈing adjective

1. Tending to cause improvement
2. Instructive
3. Edifying
4. Uplifting

improvˈingly adverb

improve the occasion

1. To seize an opportunity for edification or other purpose
2. To draw a moral from what has happened

on the improve (Aust)

Improving

• bullet point
• bullet-proof
• bulletrie
• bullets
• bullet train
• bullet trains
• bullet-tree
• bull fiddle
• bull fiddles
• bullfight
• bullfighter
• bullfighters
• bullfighting
• bullfightings
• bullfights
• bullfinch
• bullfinches
• bullfrog
• bullfrogs
• bull-fronted
• bullgine
• bullgines
• bullhead
• bull-headed
• bull-headedness