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improveth

improveth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of improve.

Meaning of improve

Verb (1)

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

  1. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
    • Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
    Synonyms:
    ameliorate
  2. (intransitive) To become better.
    • I have improved since taking the tablets.
  3. (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
    • to improve one's time; to improve his means

Verb (2)

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

  1. (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 –...
  2. (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

Origin of improveth

improve + -eth

Questions about improveth

What is improveth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Improveth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of improve.

Words near improveth in the dictionary

  1. improves
  2. improves on
  3. improves the occasion
  4. improves upon
  5. improvest
  6. improveth
  7. improvided
  8. improvidence
  9. improvidences
  10. improvident
  11. improvidentially

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