Improve

[ɪm'pruːv] or [ɪm'pruv]

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To disprove or make void; to refute.

(v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.

(v. t.) To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.

(v. t.) To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.

(v. t.) To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.

(v. i.) To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.

(v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.

(v. i.) To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.

錄入:特德

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Amend, mend, better, meliorate, ameliorate, make better.[2]. Use, make use of, turn to account, avail one's self of.[3]. Make a good use of, turn to good account, employ advantageously, make productive.[4]. Apply practically (as the doctrines of a discourse).

v. n. [1]. Mend, become better, get better, get on, gain ground, pick up.[2]. Make progress, take a step forward.[3]. (Com.) Increase, rise, be enhanced.

校對:韦恩

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Better, amend, ameliorate, emend, correct, mend, rectify, reform,[SeeAMELIORATE]

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解釋/意思:

v.t. to make better: to advance in value or excellence: to correct: to employ to good purpose.—v.i. to grow better: to make progress: to increase: to rise (as prices).—ns. Improvabil′ity Improv′ableness.—adj. Improv′able able to be improved.—adv. Improv′ably.—ns. Improve′ment the act of improving: advancement or progress: increase addition; Improv′er one who improves: a pad worn by women to make the dress hang properly.—pr.p. and adj. Improv′ing tending to cause improvement.—adv. Improv′ingly.—Improve on or upon to bring to a better state by addition or amendment; Improve the occasion to point out a moral from some event that has just occurred.

校對:琳达