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To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

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To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.

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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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To change or modify in any way for the better

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To change or modify in any way for the better

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

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To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

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To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisf…

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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See Distill.

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To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

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A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, general…

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To raise or lift up; to exalt.

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To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

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Fixed; solidified.

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To bear fruit.

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To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

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To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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To pine; to lament; to long.

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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

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Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

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Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…

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Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.

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To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metal…

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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To cover again.

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To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.

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To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

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To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to am…

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Reproduced.

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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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To return.

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To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

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To restore vitality to; to bring back to life.

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To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

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A spring; a fountain.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.

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Capable of being amended; as, an amendable writ or error.

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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A making better; amendment; improvement.

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A making better; amendment; improvement.

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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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To change or modify in any way for the better

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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To raise or lift up; to exalt.

Enhance overlaps with improve, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.

Strengthen overlaps with improve, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

Refine overlaps with improve, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

Develop overlaps with improve, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

Promises a positive change.

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

Advance overlaps with improve, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To raise or lift up; to exalt.

A strong academic and professional choice when the improvement adds value rather than repairs a defect.

To raise or lift up; to exalt.

Enhance suggests increasing quality, value or effectiveness.

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

Refine means making something more precise or polished.

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.

Strengthen focuses on resilience, capability or effectiveness.

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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