improve
verb (used with object)
to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition.
well-improved
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a word derived from
improve.
Example Sentences
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She explained that she had not fully recovered her sense of smell nor taste, but was "well-improved".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2021
This is called the back-woods, out-of-the-world, society, and so on, and I am told it will continue thus to Buffalo, a succession of well-improved farms, with some of them having quite elegant buildings.
From Notes on a Tour Through the Western part of The State of New York by Anonymous
They were married young, and settled upon the hereditary estate of my mother, which consisted of a well-improved Virginia plantation.
From A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren by Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless
He owed his introduction to court, and the personal favor of Elizabeth, as is traditionally reported, to a fortunate and well-improved accident, which is too familiar to need repetition here.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
On a well-improved station the bullocks, heifers, and weaners will be in separate paddocks, and at a certain season the bulls are taken out of the herd and put in a paddock by themselves.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
