Word Meanings - DISIMPROVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make worse; -- the opposite of improve. Jer. Taylor.

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• OPPOSITE
  1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• WORSE
  Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. Or worse, if men worse can devise. Chaucer. was nothing bettered, but rather grew
• WORSER
  Worse. Thou dost deserve a worser end. Beau. & Fl. From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan. A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. Dryden. Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• IMPROVE
  1. To disprove or make void; to refute. Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale. 2. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. Chapman. When he rehearsed
• WORSEN
  1. To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair. It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened. Southey. 2. To get the better of; to worst.
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• IMPROVEMENT
  Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. (more info) 1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration;
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• DISIMPROVE
  To make worse; -- the opposite of improve. Jer. Taylor.
• MISIMPROVEMENT
  Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
• DISIMPROVEMENT
  Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.
• MISIMPROVE
  To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc. South.