Verb

(head)

(improve)

Verb

(improv)

(lb) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).

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(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.

Verb

(restor)

To reestablish, or bring back into existence.

to restore harmony among those who are at variance

He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.

To bring back to a previous condition or state.

* Bible, Mark iii. 5

and his hand was restored whole as the other

* Prior

our fortune restored after the severest afflictions

To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.

* Bible, Genesis xx. 7

Now therefore restore the man his wife.

* Milton

Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.

* Dryden

The father banished virtue shall restore .

To give in place of, or as restitution for.

* Bible, Exodus xxii. 1

He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

(computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.

There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.

(obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.

* Shakespeare

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored , and sorrows end.