improves

VERB

make or become better

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advance better boost correct develop enhance help increase lift progress promote raise recover reform revamp revise rise upgrade

STRONG

ameliorate amend augment civilize convalesce cultivate edit elevate emend meliorate mend polish purify rally rectify recuperate refine sharpen skyrocket update

WEAK

come around doctor up gain ground look up make strides perk up pick up set right shape up straighten out take off touch up turn the corner

Antonyms

STRONGEST

blow decline decrease demote depress descend deteriorate diminish drop halt hinder hurt lessen lose lower recede reduce repress retreat retrogress stop worsen

STRONG

corrupt damage destroy dirty dull pollute ruin weaken

WEAK

harm injure

Example Sentences

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Appeared in the May 6, 2026, print edition as 'The Lawsuits Will Continue Until Morale Improves'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

There are many ways bad mathematics interferes with our democracy, as I explain in my forthcoming book, "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation."

From Salon • Feb. 29, 2024

Improves fitness Research from UC San Diego suggests that chocolate might act as a kind of performance-enhancing drug – until you look at the detail.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2016

The academic article that followed, “CrossFit-Based High-Intensity Power Training Improves Maximal Aerobic Fitness and Body Composition,” shed scientific light on why CrossFit has grown from 250 affiliate gyms in 2007 to more than 10,000 today.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 4, 2014

How spleen and envy anxious flies, And meek content, in humble guise, Improves the shrub, a tree shall rise, Which golden fruits shall yield him.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles