Improve

Definition: Improve

Improve

Verb

1. To make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes".

2. Get better; "The weather improved toward evening.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "improve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Environment

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

IMPROVE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Improve

Activity

Look sharp; have all one's eyes about one; (vigilance); rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity; lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash off; make haste; do one's best take pains; (exert oneself); do wonders, work wonders.

Deterioration

Adjective: unimproved; (improve; ); deteriorated; Verb: altered, altered for the worse; injured; Verb: sprung; withering, spoiling; Verb: on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky.

Improvement

Verb: improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.

Render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify.

Improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.

Inexpedience

Produce a good effect; do a good turn, confer an obligation; improve.

Occasion

Verb: seize; (take) an opportunity, use; an opportunity, give; an opportunity, use an occasion; improve the occasion.

Teaching

Sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind; give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, "teach the young idea how to shoot"; improve.

Crosswords: Improve

Well I hope you improve your batting average (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth)

You have to neglect illness, and the body, and so forth, to improve man. (Introduction to Scientology; writing credit: James Andrew Hall; H.G. Wells)

Sometimes a man can learn more form other men's dreams than he can from his own. Come visit me, sir, if you wish to improve your education (Something Wicked This Way Comes; writing credit: Ray Bradbury;)

Is it possible to improve on _perfection_ (The Quick and the Dead; writing credit: Simon Moore)

You know, if you did have a squint, it might actually improve your appearance (Press Gang; writing credit: Steven Moffat)

To improve our way of life (Rhythm Nation; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence. (references; author: Vermont Proverb)

A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked. (references; author: unknown)

Poverty is a condition with but one advantage, it doesn't take much to improve your lot. (references; author: unknown)

Improve Your Study Habits (1961)

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Books

• Effective Group Problem Solving: How to Broaden Participation, Improve Decision Making, and Increase Commitment to Action (Management Series/Social) (reference)

• Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community (reference)

• Improve Your Eyesight : Vision Therapy Eye Exercises--Updates Bates Method (1 Hour & 30 Minute Video and Eye Chart Included) (reference)

• Touch for Health: A Practical Guide to Natural Health Using Acupressure Touch and Massage to Improve Postural Balance and Reduce Physical and Mental (reference)

• Building Operational Excellence: Strategies to Improve It People and Processes (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Improve Your Course Fishing (reference)

• Research To Improve Learning (reference)

• To Improve The Academy (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Improve Your Life Using the Wisdom of the Ages (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Improve the Shining Hour (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mobility Electronics Notebook Coolstand To Improve Keyboard Position & Height (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Extension of the Cancer Program. On July 23, 1974 an Act was signed "to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the National Cancer Program and to authorize appropriations for such program for the next three fiscal years". See also ar000167. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Burning off marsh south of New Orleans to improve next year's growth. Numerous canals are in this area for oil and gas exploration. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The Seattle City Light property. A portion of this site, right side of the image, was used to create the Hamm Creek project which daylighted the creek and created several meanders to improve the habitat function of this salmon-bearing stream. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Draft horses bring woody debris to add complexity to the stream to improve spawning habitat at the Glade Bekken restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 43. A modified Richard messenger bottle designed to improve the action of the messenger in inverting the bottle. Commercial manufacture of this type of bottle began in 1911 by Max Marx. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 16. Monti net tube devised by Madame Rina Monti of the University of Sassari in Sardinia. Top: the assembled unit. Middle: the internal net. Bottom: series of diaphrams used in the unit. This net and tube system were meant to improve shortcomings found in various other surface plankton sampling systems and was first tested off the coast of Sardinia in 1911. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Col. Hank Morrow, commander of the 149th Fighter Wing, Texas Air National Guard, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, wears the new Libelle anti-gravity flight-suit that should improve a pilot's ability to handle the latest generation of high-performance jet airc.

Southwest Missouri RC&D Fire Consultant Gary Rostic, left, and Redings Mill Fire Chief Andy Nimmo are pleased with the installation of a dry hydrant (in background). Dry hydrants improve fire protection for rural residents. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Redings Mill, Missouri, firefighters fill a portable tank used to fight rural fires. Assistance from NRCS' Southwest Missouri RC&D office helped the fire department improve its service to rural residents. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Volunteers from a local high school work on the stairs to improve visitor access to the Happy Jack Chalk mine peak Scotia, NE. Credit: USDA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They want to improve the condition of every member of society, even that of the most favoured. (reference)

The following rivers are declared international: the Elbe (Labe) from its confluence with the Vltava (Moldau), and the Vltava (Moldau) from Prague; the Oder (Odra) from its confluence with the Oppa; the Niemen (Russstrom-Memel-Niemen) from Grodno; the Danube from Ulm; and all navigable parts of these river systems which naturally provide more than one State with access to the sea, with or without transshipment from one vessel to another; together with lateral canals and channels constructed either to duplicate or to improve naturally navigable sections of the specified river systems, or to connect two naturally navigable sections of the same river. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was made when we were both poor and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry

My remaining stock I carried with me, part in money, and part in goods, in hopes to improve my fortunes

An enterprise to improve the style of cottage architecture

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Health

Drugs to improve radiation therapy. (references)

Eating soy can improve cholesterol levels. (references)

As they improve, they gradually take smaller amounts. (references)

Business

Beijing has also moved to improve ties with Russia. (references)

The need to improve system security underlies many opportunities in this sector. (references)

In every case, this work will improve the safety and facility of increased trade. (references)

Children

Costa Rica

Nonetheless, a number of public and private institutions have made individual efforts to improve access. (references)

Pakistan

The Punjab government also worked closely with both international and local NGO's to improve primary and secondary education. (references)

Cameroon

After almost a decade of budget cuts for education, the Government took measures during the year to improve access to schools. (references)

Civil Liberties

Togo

Two opposition representatives were appointed in August to improve the HAAC's balance. (references)

Australia

Sixteen changes to procedures were recommended, including many to improve the welfare of children at the facilities. (references)

Fiji

The Fiji News Council strives to improve journalistic standards, safeguard media independence, and resolve complaints from the public. (references)

Discrimination

Mauritania

Societal discrimination against women, strongly rooted in traditional society, is endemic, although the situation continued to improve. (references)

Economic History

Honduras

Honduras is working to improve these shortcomings. (references)

Bolivia

The situation could improve markedly in the coming years. (references)

Human Rights

Rwanda

Relations between the Government and the ICTR continued to improve. (references)

Moldova

Attempts to improve prison conditions continue to be frustrated by a lack of financing. (references)

Bahrain

Local defense attorneys report that care and treatment of their clients continued to improve. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

A wide variety of government initiatives and programs seek to improve all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander life. (references)

Brazil

Hoping to improve the level of health care provided to indigenous people, in 1999 the Government transferred that responsibility from FUNAI to the Ministry of Health. (references)

Malaysia

The federal budget for the year provided for a $26 million (100 million RM) allotment to the Orang Asli community to eradicate poverty, improve education and social welfare, and improve infrastructure of resettlement villages. (references)

Minorities

Netherlands

In June the Council of Chiefs of Police agreed to a series of measures designed to improve police alertness to incidents of discrimination. (references)

Netherlands

In 2000 the Chief Public Prosecutor set up the National Expertise Center on Discrimination to improve the prosecution's handling of discrimination cases. (references)

Slovak Republic

It also created an Interministerial Committee and launched a public relations campaign to improve the image of the office and the Roma minority in general. (references)

Political Economy

UKRAINE

It is expected to further improve Ukraine's budget process. (references)

CZECH REPUBLIC

A new law on the Securities Commission is being prepared to improve its status. (references)

Tunisia

The Justice Ministry has stated publicly its intent to improve prison conditions. (references)

Political Rights

Antigua and Barbuda

The observer group also recommended the establishment of an independent electoral commission to improve the voter registration process. (references)

Nigeria

The next state and national elections are scheduled for 2003, while local government elections are scheduled for 2002. The INEC is working with several international electoral assistance organizations to help improve the process in 2003; however, no INEC officials have faced disciplinary action as result of their alleged involvement in corrupt activities that marred the 1999 election. (references)

Trade

Spain

Spain has taken steps to improve its investment and brokerage entities. (references)

Travel

Guinea

Malaysian investors are determined to expand and improve the services of the local phone company. (references)

France

Attention to the following points may improve the chances of a successful business trip to France. (references)

Vietnam

Once a deal is struck in principle, Americans may want to get on with it, while Vietnamese may want to take more time to improve their terms (even if that means delaying the entire undertaking). (references)

Women

Qatar

One NGO seeks to improve the status of women and the family under both civil and Islamic law. (references)

Mauritania

The Secretariat for Women's Affairs works with many NGO's and cooperatives to improve the status of women. (references)

Tunisia

Throughout the year, the Government funded several studies and projects designed to improve the role of women in the media. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

However, government efforts to improve the labor inspection system, begun in 2000, continued. (references)

Cyprus

Steps have been taken to improve health and safety standards in the workplace in the government-controlled area. (references)

Philippines

DOLE through the NCMB also worked to improve the functioning of labor-management councils in companies that already have unions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "improve": improve away ♦ improve on ♦ improve one's english ♦ improve one's mind ♦ improve one's training standard ♦ improve oneself ♦ improve quality ♦ improve the occasion ♦ improve the opportunity ♦ improve the status ♦ improve upon ♦ improve upon acquaintance ♦ To improve on ♦ to improve upon. Additional references.

Albanian

rrit (add to, augment, boost, breed, bring up, enhance, expand, extend, grow, heighten, hike, increase, intensify, keep, maximize, mother, raise, up), përmirësoj (ameliorate, amend, better, cultivate, elevate, enrich, grade, meliorate, mend, polish, reclaim, refine, reform, strengthen, upgrade). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حسن إستغلال, ‏حسن (advantage, alter, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, handsome, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, reform, season, upgrade, well), ‏تحسن (advance, ameliorate, amelioration, become soundly established, betterment, change for the better, get better, get well, improvement, mend, pick me up, progress, rally, recover, refinement, reform, speed up, take a turn for the better), ‏طور (age, develop, evolve, incubate, phase, promote, stage), ‏جمل (beautify, bedeck, camel, conclude, embellish, enhance, finalize, garnish, ornament, outline, precis, prettify, pretty, refine, smarten, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish), ‏جود (lavish, liberality, modulate, perfect, polish), ‏إغتنم (embrace), ‏إستفاد (avail, avail oneself of, benefit, benefit by, capitalize, conclude, deduce, profit), ‏دخل تحسينات. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съвземам се (breathe, get over, perk, recover, respire), усъвършенствувам се, усъвършенствувам (develop, overwork, perfect, refine), увеличавам (accrete, accumulate, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, blow up, enlarge, expand, increase, magnify, multiply, put up, swell), разширявам знания, възползувам се от случая, обогатявам знания, оправям се (manage, recuperate, rub through, straighten, worry along), заяквам (become stronger, blow harder, harden, thrive, toughen), подобрявам (ameliorate, amend, better, get better, help, improve on, make better, meliorate, mend, perfect, polish, polish up, rehabilitate, remedy, smarten up), изтънчвам. (various references)

Chinese 

改良 , 改善 (Bettered, Bettering, Betterment, improved, improvement, improving), 好轉 (take a turn for the better). (various references)

Czech

zvednout (elevate, heave, hoist, hold up, lift, pick up, pick(up), put up, raise, rise, take up), zvýšit (accelerate, ameliorate, bring up, build up, bump up, elevate, enhance, heighten, hot up, intensify, put up, scale up, swell, turn up), zlepšit se (ameliorate, be on the mend, meliorate, mend), zkvalitnit, zdvihnout (heave, hoist, raise, take up, unmoor, upheave, upraise), zdokonalit (accomplish, perfect), vzdìlávat se, opravit (amend, correct, emend, fix, mend, recondition, rectify, refit, renovate, repair, retouch, revise, touch up), meliorovat, školit (instruct, school). (various references)

Danish

ved at nedsaette tiden for anbringelse af understoettelse opnaas en bedre kontrol med taget (= det haengende) (to improve roof-control by reducing what is known as the 'supporting lag'), udgifter til forbedring og hovedreparation af andre realkapitalgoder,som har til formål at forlænge deres normale levetid,forøge deres produktionskapacitet eller forbedre deres funktion (expenditure on the repair and improvement of machinery and equipment which is intended to prolong its normal life, to increase its capacity or improve its performance), programmet med henblik på forbedring af arbejdsmiljøet, særlig i små og mellemstore virksomheder (hygiene and health at work, in particular in small and medium-sized enterprises, programme to improve safety, SAFE, Safety Actions for Europe programme), Program til forbedring af den finansielle forvaltning (Programme to improve financial management, Sound and Efficient Financial Management 2000 programme), Program for forbedring af juristers indsigt i fællesskabsretten (Action programme to improve awareness of Community law within the legal professions, ROBERT SCHUMAN project), paa frie vejstraekninger med tilstraekkelig bred midterrabat kan der ved opsaetning af blaendingsskaerme opnaas en vis forbedring af trafikafviklingen om natten (the erection of glare screens/anti-dazzle screens/anti-glare fences/ anti-dazzle fences/ can improve night-time traffic flow on roads which are situated outside built-up areas and have sufficiently wide central reserves), Operationelle programmer for investeringer til forbedring af vilkårene for forarbejdning og afsætning af landbrugs-og skovbrugsprodukter (Operational programmes involving investments to improve the conditions under which agricultural and forestry products are processed and marketed), Handlingsprogram til fremme af brugen af data vedrørende virksomhedsstatistik (Action programme to improve the use of statistical data on enterprises), for at forbedre Thomas-staalet har metallurgerne taget deres tilflugt til blaesning med oxygenberiget blaest (steelmakers use an oxygen-enriched blast to improve the quality of basic Bessemer steel), Fælles aktion,som tager sigte på at forbedre forarbejdningen og afsætningen af fiskerivarer og akvakulturprodukter (Common measure to improve the conditions under which fishery and aquaculture products are processed and marketed), central fjernmaaling af minegas har bidraget betydeligt til kendskabet til sikkerheden under jorden (the central pithead monitoring room had contributed to improve our knowledge of underground safety), bevare naturen i landdistrikterne (to improve the quality of the countryside), at forbedre mulighederne for at stifte bekendtskab med bulletiner med officiel information (to improve the possibilities for acquaintance with bulletins of official information). (various references)

Dutch

veredelen, verbeteren (adjust, correct, perfect). (various references)

Esperanto

plibonigi. (various references)

Farsi 

پیشرفت کردن (Comealong, Further, Progress, Prosper, Thrive), اصلاحات کردن , اصلاح کردن (Accommodate, Accord, Alter, Ameliorate, Correct, Emend, Modify, Reclaim, Remedy, Revise, Right), بهترکردن (Ameliorate), بهبودی یافتن (Ameliorate, Convalesce, Gain, Mend, Pickup, Pullround, Recover, Recuperate), بهبودی دادن (Cure). (various references)

Finnish

parantua (get better, get well, heal, recover), parantaa (ameliorate, amend, care for, cure, heal, remedy, treat), kehittää (develop, generate), jalostaa (breed, cultivate, ennoble, graft), edistyä (advance, get on, get on in the world, proceed, progress), edistää (advance, contribute to, further, promote). (various references)

French

amender, améliorer. (various references)

Frisian

ferbetterje. (various references)

German

verbessern (ameliorate, better, brighten, brighten up, correct, emend, enhance, pull up, rectify, refine, reform, strengthen, to ameliorate, to correct, to emend, to hone, to improve, to meliorate, to mend, to rectify, to reform, update, upgrade), veredeln (ennoble, graft, purify, refine), bessern (amend, better, make better, mend, reclaim, reform, remedy, righten, to amend, to reclaim, to righten), aufbessern (build up, increase, supplement). (various references)

Greek 

καλυτερεύω (better, get better, meliorate), καλλιτερεύω, βελιτώνω, βελτιώνω (ameliorate, better, enhance, improve by, meliorate, refine, touch up), βελτιώνομαι (ameliorate, better oneself, meliorate, mend, pick up), βελτιώ (meliorate, mend, touch up), βελτιούμαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשפר (ameliorate, better, mend, reform), לשכלל (elaborate, perfect), לשבוח (ameliorate, grow in value), לשבח (applaud, commend, compliment, exalt, glorify, praise), לעדן (delight, make tender, refine, sweeten), להשתפר (ameliorate, get better), להשביח (amend, mend, upgrade), להטיב (do good, mend), לטיב (amend, better, reclaim). (various references)

Hungarian

tökéletesít (accomplish, perfect, to finish, to improve, to perfect), megjavít (meliorate, to accommodate, to ameliorate, to amend, to fix, to improve, to put in repair, to put right, to refit, to set right), javul (ameliorate, change for the better, get better, to ameliorate, to be mending, to be on the upgrade, to change for the better, to get better, to get well, to look up, to mend, to pick up, to progress, to take a turn to the better), javít (amend, beef up, correct, darn, emend, maintain, mend, optimize, repair, to ameliorate, to amend, to break a record, to cobble, to darn, to improve, to mend, to put in repair, to touch up). (various references)

Indonesian

memperbaiki (ameliorate, amend, corrective, emend, improve upon, recondition, redo, restore, revise), membesut, membaik (amend, become better), membagusi, besut. (various references)

Italian

migliorare (ameliorate, amend, better, brush up, gain, get better, pick up, refine on, refine upon), perfezionare (ameliorate, amend, correct, emend, finish, impove, make perfect, perfect, polish up, refine, specialise, specialize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

進む (to advance, to improve, to make progress). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りんぽじぎょう (living among the poor while striving to improve their conditions), てがあがる (to improve ones skill), みがく (to brush, to improve, to polish, to refine, to shine), けす (to be reduced, to change into, to convert to, to delete, to erase, to improve, to influence, to transform, to turn off power), もちなおす (to improve, to pick up, to rally, to recover), あげる (to admit, to advance, to arrange, to arrest, to bear, to do up, to elevate, to engage, to finish, to fly, to fry, to give, to improve, to increase, to leave with, to lift, to mention, to observe, to offer, to perform, to praise, to present, to promote, to quote, to raise, to send, to stop, to usher in, to vomit), てんちりょうよう (seeking to improve one's health with a change of climate), あがる (to accrue, to advance, to appreciate, to be captured, to be offered, to be promoted, to become prosperous, to call on, to climb up, to enter, to go up, to improve, to rise), たちなおる (to improve, to recover, to regain one's footing), かいほうにむかう (to convalesce, to get better, to improve), かいほうにおもむく (to convalesce, to get better, to improve), かす (dregs, feces, refuse, scum, to be reduced, to change into, to convert to, to impose, to improve, to influence, to lend, to transform), かする (to be reduced, to become blurred, to change into, to convert into, to exploit, to graze, to impose, to improve, to inflict, to influence, to squeeze, to take a percentage, to touch lightly, to transform), うでをあげる (to improve one's skill), すすむ (to advance, to improve, to make progress), わざをみがく (to improve one's skill). (various references)

Korean 

개량하십시요. (various references)

Manx

sharaghey (beat, beat record), lhiassaghey (allege, amend, ascribe, ascription, charge, charge imputation, contrive, contriving, fabricate, fabrication, make up, preserve), couyral (better in health, convalesce, recover, recovery), cheet my laue (advance, get better, recover). (various references)

Norwegian

forbedre (enhance). (various references)

Pig Latin

improveay.(various references)

Portuguese

melhorar (advance, ameliorate, amend, better, breed, cultivate, enrich, gain, heal, keep, meliorate, raise, rear, reform, upgrade). (various references)

Romanian

profita de (practise upon, profit by, use), îmbunåtåţi, îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, correct, direct, drive, guide, head for, lead, mend, point at, reclaim, recover, redeem, redress, reduce, reform, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, straighten, tend, train, unbend), ameliora (ameliorate, dress, improve on, improve upon, meliorate), asana (drain, reclaim, reorganize), corecta (castigate, correct, emend, mend, read, reclaim, rectify, redress, review, revise, right), creşte în valoare (appreciate, gain), evolua favorabil, extinde (delocalize, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, protract, pull, push, spread, stretch, widen), face progrese (grow, make progress, move), îmbunãtãţi (amend, better, make smth. better, meliorate, mend), perfecţiona (accomplish, perfect, refine), valorifica (capitalize, develop, harness, make capital out of, realize, reclaim, revaluate, salvage, turn to account), progresa (advance, come along, come on, develop, gain, get along, get along with, make, make head, make progress, make way, move), pune în valoare (make, put forward), reforma (invalid, reform, renew), schimba (alter, change, chop, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, interchange, modify, renew, replace, shift, substitute, supersede, supplant, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, vary), se îmbunãtãţi (be better, come on, gain, get better), se ameliora, se folosi (avail oneself of, obtain, partake of, profit, profit by, put forth, repair to), se perfecţiona (perfect, refine), spori (accrue, accumulate, advance, augment, enhance, enlarge, grow, heighten, increase, intensify, make, multiply, propagate, spurt, step up, thicken), spori în valoare, mãri (add, advance, aggrandize, amplify, augment, better, broach, broaden, carry, develop, dilate, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, greaten, increase, intensify, largen, lift, magnify, multiply, piece out, raise, reinforce, splay, step up, swell, widen). (various references)

Romansch

meglierar (to improve). (various references)

Russian 

улучшать (ameliorate, develop, meliorate, perfect, rectify, refine). (various references)

Scottish

leasaich (correct, cultivate, manure, rectify). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

iskoristiti (avail, draw on, employ, exploit, make the most of, use, utilize), usavršiti (perfect), popraviti (amend, chasten, correct, doctor, emend, fix, mend, overhaul, recline, recondition, redress, remedy, repair, straighten out), poboljšati (ameliorate, better, get better, go one better, meliorate, pick up, upgrade). (various references)

Spanish

mejorar (ameliorate, amend, beat, better, break, disencumber, enhance, gain, get better, greaten, improve on, leak, look up, mend, pick up, progress, raise, rally, soup up, throw over, upgrade). (various references)

Swedish

bättra, förbättra (ameliorate, amend, emend, enhance, improve on, improve upon, meliorate, mend, perfect). (various references)

Turkish

iyileştirmek (ameliorate, amend, better, cicatrize, cleanse, cure, heal, make better, nurse, pull round, pull through, recruit, recuperate, rehabilitate, remedy, set up, upgrade), iyileşmek (ameliorate, amend, be recovered from, cicatrize, come along, come through, come to, convalesce, do better, get better, get well, heal, heal over, heal up, meliorate, mend, perk oneself, perk oneself up, pick up, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, recruit, recuperate, return to health), ilerletmek (advance, carry forward, cultivate, drive on, forward, further, prosecute, push forward, set forward, take forward), ilerlemek (advance, develop, forge ahead, gain, get along, go ahead, go along, go forward, go on, keep going, make headway, make one's way, make progress, move, move on, proceed, progress, push on, run on), yükselmek (arise, ascend, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, climb, develop, escalate, flow, gain, get one's promotion, go up, harden, heighten, Louden, nose up, rear up, rise, scale up, soar, steepen, step up, sublime, swell, tower, upheave, upsurge, work one's way up), geliştirmek (advance, ameliorate, better, boom, build up, cultivate, develop, enlarge, evolve, launch out, open up, reclaim, soup up, work up), gelişmek (advance, ameliorate, blossom, blossom out, boom, branch out, develop, evolve, expand, flourish, flower, go ahead, grow, grow up, make headway, progress, refine, shape, shape up, thrive, unfold), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), düzelmek (ameliorate, amend, come along, do better, get better, look up, meliorate, mend, recover, refine, reform, smooth down, straighten), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), ıslah etmek (bowdlerize, chasten, grade up, reclaim, reform). (various references)

Turkmen 

яagю, kдmilleюdirmek (perfect, refine), gowylandyrmak, gowulandyrmak (make better). (various references)

Ukrainian

удосконалюватися (progress, refine), удосконалювати (accomplish, develop, perfect, refine), скористатися (avail oneself of, partake, profit, snatch), проводити міліорацію, поліпшуватися (ameliorate, look up, mend), поліпшувати (ameliorate, amend, batten, better, cultivate, enrich, meliorate, mend). (various references)

Welsh

gwellhau (better), gwella (ameliorate, amend, better, mend). (various references)

aedifica, aedificabant, aedificabat, aedificabatur, aedificaberis, aedificabimini, aedificabimus, aedificabis, aedificabit, aedificabitis, aedificabitur, aedificabo, aedificabunt, aedificabuntur, aedificamus, aedificanda, aedificandam, aedificandum, aedificans, aedificant, aedificantes, aedificanti, aedificantibus, aedificantium, aedificare, aedificarem, aedificaremus, aedificarent, aedificares, aedificaret, aedificaretis, aedificaretur, aedificari, aedificaris, aedificas, aedificasse, aedificassem, aedificasti, aedificastis, aedificat, aedificata, aedificatae, aedificate, aedificatis, aedificato, aedificator, aedificatum, aedificatur, aedificaturus, aedificatus, aedificaverat, aedificaverint, aedificaveris, aedificaverit, aedificaverunt, aedificaveruntque, aedificavi, aedificavimus, aedificavit, aedificavitque, aedificem, aedificemus, aedificent, aedificentur, aedifices, aedificet, aedificetur, aedifico, amplio, emendare, emendationem, emendatum, excolantes, meliorare, prode, reaedificabo. (various references)

meliorare. (various references)

gebetan. (various references)

emprouwer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "improve": improved, improvement, improvements, improver, improvers, improves. (additional references)

Words containing "improve": unimproved. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Improve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emprive, emprove, Immravax, imporve, improuvd, improuve, improv, improval, imrove, imrpove, inprove, Umbgrove. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: improv, mopier.

-2 letters: moire, moper, mover, movie, prime, primo, proem, prove, viper, vireo, vomer.

-3 letters: emir, mire, mope, more, move, omer, over, peri, perm, pier, poem, pome, pore, prim, prom, repo, rime, ripe, rive, romp, rope, rove, vier.

-4 letters: imp, ire, mir, mop, mor, ope, ore, per, pie, poi, pom, pro, rei, rem, rep.

+1 letter: improved, improver, improves.

+2 letters: improvers, improvise, promotive.

+3 letters: impervious, impoverish, improvable, improvised, improviser, improvises, oversimple, oversimply, unimproved.

+4 letters: comparative, compressive, improvement, improvident, improvisers, overimpress, overpromise, overpumping.

+5 letters: comparatives, imperviously, impoverished, impoverisher, impoverishes, improvements, improvidence, overemphasis, overemphatic, overoptimism, overoptimist, overpromised, overpromises, oversimplify, overtrumping, performative.