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Improve vs Therapy - What's the difference?

improve | therapy |

As verbs the difference between improve and therapy

is that improve is (lb) to make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something) while therapy is to treat with a therapy.

As a noun therapy is

treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.

improve

English

Alternative forms

* emprove (obsolete)

Verb

(improv)
  • (lb) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
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  • , title= 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.}}
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (to make something better) ameliorate, better, batten, enhance * See also

    Antonyms

    * (to make something worse) deteriorate, worsen * (to become worse) deteriorate, worsen

    Derived terms

    * improvement

    therapy

    English

    Noun

    (therapies)
  • Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
  • Healing power or quality.
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * adjuvant therapy * antitherapy * apitherapy * art therapy * autotherapy * autohemotherapy * brachytherapy * chemotherapy * cobalt therapy * conversion therapy * cryotherapy * ecotherapy * electroconvulsive therapy * electrotherapy * gene therapy * gestalt therapy * heliotherapy * hypnotherapy * immunotherapy * logotherapy * magnotherapy * monotherapy * multidrug therapy * music therapy * neoadjuvant therapy * oligotherapy * oxygen therapy * ozone therapy * physical therapy * physiotherapy * primal therapy * psychotherapy * radiotherapy * radiation therapy * reparative therapy * retail therapy * running therapy * serotherapy * shock therapy * systemic therapy * teletherapy * theotherapy * thought field therapy * timeline therapy * vinotherapy

    Verb

  • To treat with a therapy.
  • To undergo a therapy.