bettered

verbimprove performance; outdo

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verb improve performance; outdo

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Word Origin & History

Old English bettra, earlier betera, from Proto-Germanic *batizo-, from PIE *bhad- "good;" see best. Comparative adjective of good in the older Germanic languages (cf. Old Frisian betera, Old Saxon betiro, Old Norse betr, Danish bedre, Old High German bezziro, German besser, Gothic batiza). In English it superseded bet in the adverbial sense by 1600. Better half "wife" is first attested 1570s.

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It is for the reader to say whether Shakespeare blurred the picture, or bettered it.

I thought they might have bettered that a couple of seconds.

Men were slow enough to recognise this bettered aspect of their fortune.

The Boss said for a miniature word painting that couldn't be bettered.

Doubtless they were satisfied that they had not bettered their condition by what they had done.

“Socrates could not have bettered it,” commended Sir Blaise.

Stone had had two pair to go on and had not bettered at the draw.

"I'm not sure that couldn't be bettered, Mr. Locke," he demurred.

The longing to be shielded, bettered, sympathised with, is one of the attributes of the sex.

I won't say that years have bettered your appearance; 'tisn't their way.

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