improve  /ɪmpr'uv/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  improve
  (vt.)使更好,改善,增進;利用(vi.)變得更好;增加

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Improve \Im*prove"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Improved}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Improving}.] [Pref. in- in + prove, in approve. See
     {Approve}, {Prove.}]
     1. To make better; to increase the value or good qualities
        of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve
        land. --Donne.
  
              I love not to improve the honor of the living by
              impairing that of the dead.           --Denham.
  
     2. 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. --Shak.
  
              We shall especially honor God by improving
              diligently the talents which God hath committed to
              us.                                   --Barrow.
  
              A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened
              and improved.                         --Addison.
  
              The court seldom fails to improve the oppotunity.
                                                    --Blackstone.
  
              How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining
              hour.                                 --I. Watts.
  
              Those moments were diligently improved. --Gibbon.
  
              True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion,
              binds us to improve the occasion.     --Washington.
  
     3. To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; --
        said with reference to what is bad. [R.]
  
              We all have, I fear, . . . not a little improved the
              wretched inheritance of our ancestors. --Bp.
                                                    Porteus.
  
     Syn: To better; meliorate; ameliorate; advance; heighten;
          mend; correct; recify; amend; reform.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Improve \Im*prove"\, v. t. [Pref. im- not + prove: cf. L.
     improbare, F. improuver.]
     1. To disprove or make void; to refute. [Obs.]
  
              Neither can any of them make so strong a reason
              which another can not improve.        --Tyndale.
  
     2. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure;
        as, to improve negligence. [Obs.] --Chapman.
  
              When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto
              the high apostles, they could improve nothing.
                                                    --Tyndale.

資料來源(4): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Improve \Im*prove"\, v. i.
     1. To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is
        desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in
        health.
  
              We take care to improve in our frugality and
              diligence.                            --Atterbury.
  
     2. To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
        ``Domitain improved in cruelty.'' --Milner.
  
     3. To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the
        price of cotton improves.
  
     {To improve on} or {upon}, to make useful additions or
        amendments to, or changes in; to bring nearer to
        perfection; as, to improve on the mode of tillage.

資料來源(5): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  improve
       v 1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his
            changes" [syn: {better}, {amend}, {ameliorate}, {meliorate}]
            [ant: {worsen}]
       2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: {better},
           {ameliorate}, {meliorate}] [ant: {worsen}]