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improve on

improve on verb: to fix, make better or increase the quality of (something) in comparison to previous attempts; to contribute to an ongoing effort to improve (something).

Verb

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

  1. To fix, make better or increase the quality of (something) in comparison to previous attempts; to contribute to an ongoing effort to improve (something).
    Synonyms:
    better

improve on meaning in Malayalam

improve on in Malayalam

better, surpass, do better than
മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുക, അതിശയിക്കുക, കവച്ചുവയ്ക്കുക, അധഃകരിക്കുക, ഭേദപ്പെടുത്തുക, അതിക്രമിക്കുക

Synonyms of improve on

Forms of improve on

third-person singular presentimproves on
present participleimproving on
past participleimproved on
pastimproved on
alternative formimprove upon

Questions about improve on

What does improve on mean?
Improve on means to fix, make better or increase the quality of (something) in comparison to previous attempts; to contribute to an ongoing effort to improve (something).
What is improve on in Malayalam?
Improve on in Malayalam is മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുക, അതിശയിക്കുക, കവച്ചുവയ്ക്കുക. See Improve on meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is improve on?
Improve on is a verb.
What is the past tense of improve on?
The past tense of improve on is improved on.

Words near improve on in the dictionary

  1. improvableness
  2. improvably
  3. improval
  4. improvals
  5. improve
  6. improve on
  7. improve the occasion
  8. improve upon
  9. improveable
  10. improved
  11. improved on

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: improve on (page history and authors); improve on (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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