intransitive verb. To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better.

intransitive verb. To increase the productivity or value of (land or property).

intransitive verb. To become better.

intransitive verb. To make beneficial additions or changes.

To disapprove; censure; blame.

To approve; prove; test.

To disprove; prove false; refute.

To make better; ameliorate the condition of; increase in value, excellence, capability, estimation, or the like; bring into a better, higher, more desirable, or more profitable state: as, to improve the mind by study; to improve the breeds of animals; to improve land by careful tillage.

To turn to advantage or account; use profitably; make use of: as, to improve an opportunity; to improve the occasion.

To increase in force or amount; intensify in any respect.

To grow better in any way; become more excellent or more favorable; advance in goodness, knowledge, wisdom, amount, value, etc.: as, his health is improving; the price of cotton improves daily.

To increase; grow.

transitive verb. To disprove or make void; to refute.

transitive verb. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.

transitive verb. To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation.

transitive verb. To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize

transitive verb. To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.

intransitive verb. To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement.

intransitive verb. To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.

intransitive verb. To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value.

intransitive verb. to make useful additions or amendments to, or changes in; to bring nearer to perfection.

intransitive verb. undefined

verb. to make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something)

verb. to become better

verb. get better

verb. to make better

"Seeing the living standards of the Chinese people improve is a good thing -- good because we want a stable China, and good because China can be a powerful market for American exports."

decline  deteriorate  impair  spoil  

improving-furnace  to improve on  

to improve upon  

improvement  

approve  behoove  disapprove  disprove  groove  

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accommodate  acculturate  adapt  adjust  advance  

improved  improves  improving