ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

658. Improvement -- N. improvement; amelioration, melioration; 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.].
659. Deterioration -- N. deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb; recession &c 287;
retrogradation &c 283 [Obs.]; decrease &c 36.
degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation, depravement;
devolution; depravity &c 945; demoralization, retrogression; masochism.
impairment, inquination † , injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration † , outrage,
havoc, inroad, ravage, scath † ; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation,
pollution, defoedation † , poisoning, venenation † , leaven, contamination, canker,
corruption, adulteration, alloy.