Embetter vs. Improve — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Embetter and Improve
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Definitions
Embetter
(transitive) To make better; improve.
Improve
To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better
Exercise can improve your health.
Embetter
To make better.
Improve
To increase the productivity or value of (land or property)
Improved the house by adding a bathroom.
Improve
To become better
Economic conditions are improving.
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Improve
To make beneficial additions or changes
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Improve
(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
Buying more servers would improve performance.
Improve
(intransitive) To become better.
I have improved since taking the tablets.
The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.
Improve
(obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
Improve
(obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
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Improve
(dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
To improve one's time;
To improve his means
Improve
To disprove or make void; to refute.
Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve.
Improve
To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing.
Improve
To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
I love not to improve the honor of the living by impairing that of the dead.
Improve
To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.
We shall especially honor God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us.
A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved.
The court seldom fails to improve the opportunity.
How doth the little busy beeImprove each shining hour.
Those moments were diligently improved.
True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.
Improve
To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; - said with reference to what is bad.
We all have, I fear, . . . not a little improved the wretched inheritance of our ancestors.
Improve
To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence.
Improve
To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
Improve
To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
Improve
To make better;
The editor improved the manuscript with his changes
Improve
Get better;
The weather improved toward evening
