emprove

emprove is the obsolete form of improve.

Meaning of improve

improve (third-person singular simple present improves, present participle improving, simple past and past participle improved)

(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
- Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
Synonyms:

ameliorate
(intransitive) To become better.
- I have improved since taking the tablets.
(dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
- to improve one's time; to improve his means

improve (third-person singular simple present improves, present participle improving, simple past and past participle improved)

(obsolete) 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 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “[Of the Sacramentes.] Of Order.”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folios xciij, recto –...
(obsolete) 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 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “The .IIIJ. Senses of yͤ Scripture”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio cxlix, recto

third-person singular present	emproves
present participle	emproving
past participle	emproved
past	emproved

What is emprove the obsolete form of?: Emprove is the obsolete form of improve.

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