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bettered

bettered is the simple past and past participle of better.

Meaning of better

Verb (1)

better

  1. (auxiliary, colloquial, modal) Had better.
    • It's getting late. You better get on home.

Verb (2)

better (third-person singular simple present betters, present participle bettering, simple past and past participle bettered)

  1. (transitive) To improve.
    • attempts to better the lot of the refugees
  2. (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
  3. (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel; to improve on.
    • He summed the whole thing up in a way that I couldn't possibly better.
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  4. (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
    • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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Questions about bettered

What is bettered the simple past and past participle of?
Bettered is the simple past and past participle of better.

Words near bettered in the dictionary

  1. better-run
  2. better-timed
  3. better-to-do
  4. better-versed
  5. betterable
  6. bettered
  7. betterer
  8. bettererer
  9. betterers
  10. betterest
  11. bettereth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bettered (page history and authors); better (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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