embetter
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embetter (third-person singular simple present embetters, present participle embettering, simple past and past participle embettered)
- (transitive) To make better; improve.
- 1605, Samuel Daniel, Certaine small poems lately printed with the tragedie of Philotas:
- For cruelty doth not embetter men,
But them more wary make than they have been.
- 2004, George W. Bush:
- But they're allowed to use the money to change hearts and souls, to help save lives, to embetter the world we live in.
- 2015, Paulos Z. Huang, Yearbook of Chinese Theology 2015, page 11:
- In order to embetter participation in global cultural dialogue, China has promoted dialogue at home, and has greatly adjusted the relationship between religion and Chinese society.
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- (to make something better): ameliorate, enhance; See also Thesaurus:improve
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- (antonym(s) of "to make something worse"): pejorate, worsen; See also Thesaurus:worsen