The meaning of IMPROVE is to enhance in value or quality : make better. How to use improve in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Improve.

IMPROVE definition: to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition. See examples of improve used in a sentence.

Phrasal verb improve on/upon something (Definition of improve from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

If you improve on a previous achievement of your own or of someone else, you achieve a better standard or result. We need to improve on our previous performance.

When you improve something, you make it better. For example, you can improve your harmonica playing with practice.

To advance to a more desirable state: ameliorate, amend, better, help, meliorate, upgrade.

Improve, ameliorate, better imply bringing to a more desirable state. Improve usually implies remedying a lack or a felt need: to improve a process, oneself (as by gaining more knowledge).

A drawing of a man pointing to a graphing showing an improvement in sales numbers. Improvement is the process of a thing moving from one state to a state considered to be …

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