To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
To become better.
I have improved since taking the tablets.
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.
From Anglo-Norman emprouwer, from Old French en- + prou (“profit”), from Vulgar Latin prode (“advantageous, profitable”).
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