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Antonyms for improve
ɪmˈpruvim·prove
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improveverb
to make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something)
Synonyms:
batten, better, enhance, ameliorateimproveverb
to become better
Synonyms:
ameliorate, enhance, better, battenAntonyms:
worsen
English Synonyms and Antonyms
improve
To amend is to change for the better by removing faults, errors, or defects, and always refers to that which at some point falls short of a standard of excellence. Advance, better, and improve may refer either to what is quite imperfect or to what has reached a high degree of excellence; we advance the kingdom of God, improve the minds of our children, better the morals of the people. But for matters below the point of ordinary approval we seldom use these words; we do not speak of bettering a wretched alley, or improving a foul sewer. There we use cleanse, purify, or similar words. We correct evils, reform abuses, rectify incidental conditions of evil or error; we ameliorate poverty and misery, which we can not wholly remove. We mend a tool, repair a building, correct proof; we amend character or conduct that is faulty, or a statement or law that is defective. A text, writing, or statement is amended by the author or by some adequate authority; it is often emended by conjecture. A motion is amended by the mover or by the assembly; a constitution is amended by the people; an ancient text is emended by a critic who believes that what seems to him the better reading is what the author wrote. Compare ALLEVIATE.
Antonyms:
aggravate, blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, deteriorate, harm, impair, injure, mar, spoil, tarnish, vitiateSynonyms:
advance, ameliorate, amend, better, cleanse, correct, emend, make better, meliorate, mend, mitigate, purify, rectify, reform, repair
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Princeton's WordNet
better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorateverb
to make better
"The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
Synonyms:
better, repair, remedy, amend, meliorate, remediate, break, ameliorate, rectifybetter, improve, ameliorate, meliorateverb
get better
"The weather improved toward evening"
Synonyms:
better, ameliorate, meliorate, break, amend
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
improveverb
Synonyms:
amend, ameliorate, rectify, better, mend, utilize, use, gain, get betterimproveverb
Antonyms:
deteriorate, decline, degenerate
Editors Contribution
wreak
to improve is to when things are getting better and wreak is a total mess.
my grades are improving my grades are a wreak
How to use improve in a sentence?
The first improvements we usually see in our burn and trauma patients is their itching and their pain is decreased, then a few weeks after the laser, you'll see an improvement in the texture (of the skin.) It'll get smoother. And somewhere in between there, range of motion will improve. We have patients that call us literally the next day to say, 'I can move my arm. I haven't been able to do this in 10 years.'.
Last year we made promises to fundamentally change and improve how we establish and expedite presumptions -- now we're keeping them, we are taking a new approach to presumptives that takes all available science into account, with one goal in mind : Getting today's Veterans -- and vets in the decades ahead -- the benefits they deserve as fast as possible.
Together, we can build confidence in the division that will ensure compliance with the Constitution, improve public safety and make the job of delivering police services safer and more effective.
What we are looking at is how we can improve the statutes to provide more transparency when countries are upgraded.
As we continue our investigation of the root cause, out of an abundance of caution, we are revising charge and thermal management settings on Model S and Model X vehicles via an over-the-air software update that will begin rolling out today, to help further protect the battery and improve battery longevity.
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