Improve vs Recover - What's the difference?
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(lb) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
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, title= (lb) To become better.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving ,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
(lb) To disprove or make void; to refute.
*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another cannot improve .
(lb) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
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*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing.
(lb) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
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*(Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
*:We shall especially honour God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved
*(William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
*:The court seldom fails to improve the opportunity.
*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour.
*(George Washington) (1732-1799)
*:True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.
To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxx. 18
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, title= To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
(obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
* Fuller
* Shakespeare
* Hales
(archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
* Shakespeare
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* Bible, 2. Tim. ii. 26
(archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
* Rogers
(archaic) To get better from; to get over.
* Cowley
* De Foe
To get better, regain one's health.
To regain one's composure, balance etc.
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, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
(legal) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
(legal) To gain as compensation or reparation.
(legal) To gain by legal process.
(label) Recovery.
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*:It was neuer in my thoughte saide la?celot to withholde the quene from my lord Arthur / but in soo moche she shold haue ben dede for my sake / me semeth it was my parte to saue her lyf and putte her from that daunger tyl better recouer myghte come / & now I thanke god sayd sir Launcelot that the pope hath made her pees
(label) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
To cover again.
(roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
As verbs the difference between improve and recover
is that improve is (lb) to make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something) while recover is to get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc) or recover can be to cover again.As a noun recover is
(label) recovery.improve
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Alternative forms
* emprove (obsolete)Verb
(improv)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Synonyms
* (to make something better) ameliorate, better, batten, enhance * See alsoAntonyms
* (to make something worse) deteriorate, worsen * (to become worse) deteriorate, worsenDerived terms
* improvementrecover
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Alternative forms
* recovre (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) recoverer and (etyl) recovrer, from (etyl) recuperare.Verb
(en verb)- David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch.
- The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough.
- Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.
- The wine in my bottle will recover him.
- Cnelius a physiciangave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered .
- that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him
- to recover lost time
- Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover .
- I do hope to recover my late hurt.
- when I had recovered a little my first surprise
The China Governess, chapter=19
- The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
- to recover''' damages in trespass; to '''recover debt and costs in a suit at law
- to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery
- to recover judgement against a defendant
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
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(en verb)- (Sir Walter Scott)
