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Answer for the clue "Better ", 7 letters:
improve
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Word definitions for improve in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a situation improves ▪ The situation has improved over the last decade. an improved version ▪ The manufacturers come up with new, improved versions each year. expand/improve your vocabulary ( also enrich your vocabulary ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (lb en transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "to use to one's profit, to increase (income)," from Anglo-French emprouwer "to turn to profit" (late 13c.), from Old French en- , causative prefix, + prou "profit," from Latin prode "advantageous" (see proud ). Spelling with -v- was rare before ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Improve \Im*prove"\, v. t. [Pref. im- not + prove: cf. L. improbare, F. improuver.] To disprove or make void; to refute. [Obs.] Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. --Tyndale. To disapprove; to find fault with; ...
Usage examples of improve.
In fact, a cabinet organ is simply an accordeon of immense power and improved mechanism.
As time passed and his French improved, Adams further realized that Franklin spoke the language poorly and understood considerably less than he let on.
In October, determined to improve the situation, Adams urged Lee to give up living at Chaillot and move in with them at the Hotel de Valentinois.
What appears to have pleased Adams no less was the discovery during his parting call at Versailles that his French had so improved he could manage an extended conversation and speak as rapidly as he pleased.
Brunelleschi, though it was built on and improved by Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca.
In general, the persecuted sects, Anabaptists and Unitarians, were firmly for tolerance, by which their own position would have been improved.
The scraper of the Esquimaux and the Andaman islanders is but an enlarged and improved edition of the Miocene scraper.
In Chapter V, above, we left the antisubmarine situation in June 1942 considerably improved, but it did not long stay improved.
Which meant that it would be up to him, Caesar, to try to improve the Antonian fortune.
Maggie with excited touches tried to improve her setting of the table, aquiver with expectancy and suspense at the nearness of the meeting-- every nerve of audition strained to catch the first footfall upon the stairs.
Angarak atrocities, their archery improved to the point that no place in the horde was truly safe from Asturian arrows, and Kal Torak of Mallorea took horrid casualties as he marched west toward Vo Mimbre.
I was experimenting with Aterian spear points trying to improve on their technique.
The same doctors who listen to Continuing Medical Education audiocassettes on their car stereos, intent on keeping up with every innovation that might improve their outcome statistics, may regard cross-cultural medicine as a form of political bamboozlement, an assault on their rationality rather than a potentially lifesaving therapy.
More important, however, is that the transfer would improve commerce between the Belt and the Triplanetary population, defusing the more volatile Belter Autarchists, who view trade with Triplanetary as both expensive and pointless.
As you improve, you can continue your automatic writing sessions for longer periods of time.