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Improver

Improver \Im*prov"er\, n. One who, or that which, improves.

Wiktionary
improver

n. 1 Something that, or someone who, improves 2 A substance added to cause improvement (especially to a foodstuff)

WordNet
improver
  1. n. someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms [syn: humanitarian, do-gooder]

  2. a component that is added to something to improve it; "the addition of a bathroom was a major improvement"; "the addition of cinammon improved the flavor" [syn: addition, add-on]

Usage examples of "improver".

Before the advent of the Draining Tile, covered drains were furnished with stones, boards, brush, weeds, and various other rubbish, and their good effect, very properly, claimed the attention of all improvers of wet land.

Freud banned hypnotism from his system of psychotherapy and, as an entirely illogical consequence of this ban, hypnotism came to be largely neglected in surgery and general medicine, where it is of such inestimable value as a nonpoisonous anesthetic, as a raiser of resistance to infection, as an improver of morale, as a promoter of healing and an accelerator of convalescence.

Hiram Sloane declared she had heard the Improvers meant to plough up all the roadsides and set them out with geraniums.

Levi Boulter warned his neighbors that the Improvers would insist that everybody pull down his house and rebuild it after plans approved by the society.

Roger Pye sent word to the Improvers by his son, John Andrew, that he was going to town and would get their paint for them, the Improvers told John Andrew to tell his father to get 147.

English mechanics seem early to have distinguished themselves as improvers of the lathe.

Among more recent improvers of flax-machinery, the late Sir Peter Fairbairn is entitled to high merit: the work turned out by him being of first-rate excellence, embodying numerous inventions and improvements of great value and importance.