transitive. To make good or better; to mend or repair (things damaged), mend or heal (wounds, sickness), improve (land). dialect in later use.

transitive. To make better; to improve, ameliorate; to enhance.

transitive. To improve the quality, condition, or appearance of. Obsolete (English regional (western) in later use).

transitive. = sharpen, v. 2. Obsolete.

transitive. To improve the quality or condition of (a person or thing), to make better, ameliorate. In early use also: †to be of benefit to (a…

In various figurative or immaterial senses, with personal object. To elevate spiritually or morally.

transitive. To make better; to improve; = ameliorate, v. 1. Also: to mitigate (suffering, ill feeling, etc.).

transitive. To make better.

To enhance the value of; to render precious or attractive. Obsolete.

figurative. To increase the wealth or copiousness of (a language); to add to, improve (a science, etc.).

transitive. To make better; to improve. Also intransitive: †to grow better (obsolete).

transitive. To improve in quality; to render more excellent; to ameliorate (conditions, etc.). Obsolete.

In various technical uses: To bring to the desired quality or condition. To make pliable; to cause to work smoothly or easily.

transitive. To raise to a better quality, condition, or standard; to bring into a more profitable or desirable state; to increase the value or…

transitive. To bring to or into a better or more exalted state or condition by labour or effort; to raise, elevate; to improve. Now chiefly reflexive.

transitive. To make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better. Also: to reduce the impact or severity of (something negative or unpleasant); to…

To allay, alleviate, assuage, soothe.

transitive. To improve in quality. Obsolete.

transitive. To give spice or variety to. Also: to elaborate. Now rare.

to make something of, to make important or useful; to improve or raise in some way; to succeed in utilizing to some extent.

transitive. To make richer or more intense; to enrich.

transitive. (a) To render transcendent. (b) To render transcendental; to idealize.

to tone down, to lower the tone, quality, or character of; to soften, make less emphatic. to tone up, to raise or improve the tone of, to give a…

To improve; to render more pleasing or attractive.

transitive. To make (a person or thing) rich; to enrich. Also intransitive.

figurative. To raise to a higher level or standard, by a stage or stages. More widely, to advance gradually; to increase, intensify.

transitive. To raise to a higher standard, to upgrade; spec. to improve the performance of (a mechanical device or process); to increase the…

To improve, to ‘boost’. colloquial.

intransitive. With up. Chiefly Caribbean and in British Afro-Caribbean usage. To do or perform well; to make (more) desirable, to improve.