betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending &c v.; advancement;
advance &c (progress) 282; ascent &c 305; promotion, preferment;
elevation &c 307; increase &c 35; cultivation, civilization; culture,
march of intellect; menticulture†; race-culture, eugenics.
reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts,
correction, limoe labor [Lat.], refinement, elaboration; purification
&c 652; oxidation; repair &c (restoration) 660; recovery &c 660.
revise, new edition.
reformer, radical.
V. improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.
advance &c (progress) 282; ascend &c 305; increase &c 35;
fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable
turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow
one's wild oats; recover &c 660.
be better &c adj., be improved by; turn to right account, turn to
good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of;
make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.
render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate,
meliorate; correct; decrassify†.
improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate,
fatten.
promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward,
bring on; foster &c 707; invigorate &c (strengthen) 159.
touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up,
brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to
advantage; prune; repair &c (restore) 660; put in order &c (arrange)
60.
review, revise; make corrections, make improvements &c n.; doctor
&c (remedy) 662; purify, &c 652.
relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.
reform, remodel, reorganize; new model.
view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to
Philip sober.
palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil &c 36.
Adj. improving &c v.; progressive, improved &c v.; better, better off,
better for; all the better for; better advised.
reformatory, emendatory†; reparatory &c (restorative) 660 [Obs.];
remedial &c 662.
corrigible, improvable; accultural†.
Adv. on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on
better advice; ad melius inquirendum [Lat.].
Phr. urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit [Lat.].