improve

verb5

1. •
   to raise the quality or value of something

   • Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
   • Buying more servers would improve performance.
2. •
   To become better.

   • I have improved since taking the tablets.
   • The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.
3. •
   (old-fashioned) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

   • March 7, 1778, George Washington, letter True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.
4. •
   (no longer used) To disprove or make void; to refute.

   • One sayth this and a nother that / but can not agre. Nether can any of them make so stronge a reason vvhich a nother can not improve. — 1528
5. •
   (no longer used) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.

   • [W]hen he rehersed his preachinge and his doynges vnto the hye Apostles / they coulde improve no thinge […] — 1528