If you improve on a previous achievement of your own or of someone else, you achieve a better standard or result. We need to improve on our performance against France. [VERB + on]
1. to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition; make better: improving one's health. 3. to increase the value of (real property) by betterments. 4. to increase in quality or value; become better. 5. to make improvements. im•prov`a•bil′i•ty, im•prov′a•ble•ness, n.
Improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge). Ameliorate, a formal word, implies improving oppressive, unjust, or difficult conditions: to ameliorate working conditions.
The word "improve" is a verb that signifies the process of making something better or enhancing its quality, performance, or condition. It is derived from the Latin word "improbare," which combines the prefix "in-" (meaning "not") and "probare" (meaning "to test" or "to prove").
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Some common synonyms of improve are ameliorate, better, and help. While all these words mean "to make more acceptable or to bring nearer a standard," improve and better are general and interchangeable and apply to what can be made better whether it is good or bad.
We're always looking for new ways to improve our services. Some wines improve with age. The situation should improve in the long term. The government started a campaign to improve standards in schools. More and more people are consciously trying to improve their health.
