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benefit
verb. help, enhance
  • advance
  • advantage
  • aid
  • ameliorate
  • assist
  • avail
  • be good for
  • better
  • build
  • contribute to
  • do for one
  • do the trick
  • favor
  • fill the bill
  • further
  • improve
  • make a killing
  • make it
  • pay
  • pay off
  • profit
  • promote
  • relieve
  • serve
  • succor
  • work for

brighten
verb. make happy, feel better
  • become cheerful
  • buck up
  • buoy up
  • cheer
  • cheer up
  • clear up
  • encourage
  • enliven
  • gladden
  • hearten
  • improve
  • look up
  • perk up

build
verb. increase, accelerate
  • aggrandize
  • amplify
  • augment
  • boost
  • compound
  • develop
  • enlarge
  • escalate
  • expand
  • extend
  • heighten
  • improve
  • intensify
  • magnify
  • mount
  • multiply
  • strengthen
  • swell
  • wax

build up
verb. amplify, advertise
  • add to
  • boost
  • develop
  • enhance
  • expand
  • extend
  • fortify
  • heighten
  • hype
  • improve
  • increase
  • intensify
  • plug
  • promote
  • publicize
  • puff
  • reinforce
  • spotlight
  • strengthen

civilize
verb. make cultured; develop
  • acculturate
  • acquaint
  • advance
  • better
  • cultivate
  • edify
  • educate
  • elevate
  • enlighten
  • ennoble
  • enrich
  • ethicize
  • foster
  • help forward
  • humanize
  • idealize
  • improve
  • indoctrinate
  • inform
  • instruct
  • polish
  • promote
  • reclaim
  • refine
  • sophisticate
  • spiritualize
  • tame
  • uplift

clear up
verb. become improved
  • become fair
  • become sunny
  • blow over
  • brighten
  • die away
  • die down
  • improve
  • lapse
  • lift
  • pick up
  • run its course

come along
verb. progress, develop
  • do well
  • get on
  • improve
  • mend
  • perk up
  • pick up
  • rally
  • recover
  • recuperate
  • show improvement

come on
verb. advance, progress
  • develop
  • gain
  • improve
  • increase
  • make headway
  • proceed

compensate
verb. offset, make up for
  • abrogate
  • annul
  • atone for
  • balance
  • better
  • cancel out
  • counteract
  • counterbalance
  • counterpoise
  • countervail
  • fix
  • improve
  • invalidate
  • make amends
  • negate
  • negative
  • neutralize
  • nullify
  • outweigh
  • redress
  • repair
  • set off
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Word Origin & History

improve late 15c., "to use to one's profit," from Anglo-Fr. emprouwer "to turn to profit" (late 13c.), from O.Fr. en-, causative prefix, + prou "profit," from L. prode "advantageous" (see proud). Meaning "to raise to a better quality or condition" first recorded 1610s. Phrase improve the occasion retains the etymological sense. Meaning "to turn land to profit" (by clearing it, erecting buildings, etc.) was in Anglo-Fr. (13c.) and was retained in the American colonies.

Example Sentences for improving

He felt vaguely that his reluctance did him credit, and that he was improving.

In 1859 a movement was made for improving its shores as a public park.

We're not thwarting Lieutenant Ferry's plan, we're only improving upon it.

The ever improving brain will give us an ever broadening creed.

Reaching Abydos, he set about improving his naval and military position.

I can scarce use my arms, it is true, but they are improving.

Many of us are improving the opportunity of bathing in the York.

Hybridization has been the chief means of improving the grape.

Besides, here I have no hope of learning anything or improving my condition.

It's little we used to hear of improving, when I was a child.

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