v.
- make or become better.
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(improve on/upon)
achieve or produce something better than.
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[as adj. improving]
giving moral or intellectual benefit.
Derivative
- improvability n.
- improvable adj.
- improver n.
Etymology
C16 (as emprowe or improwe): from Anglo-Norman Fr. emprower, based on OFr. prou ‘profit’.