IMPROVE Copy link • IMPROVETRANS., melius facere or efficere (to make better): corrigere (to correct or improve a whole that is defective, not right, etc.): emendare (to free anything from faults). (The words are found in this connection and order.) corrigere et emendare; emendare et corrigere. To improve one’s ways, mores corrigere or emendare: to improve one’s estate or fortune, amplificare fortunam; augere opes: to improve and enlarge one’s house, aedes reficere in melius et in majus; anybody’s circumstances, amplificare fortunam: augere opes. His circumstances are improved, ejus res sunt meliore loco. INTRANS. To make progress, progredi: procedere: procedere et progredi: proficere (all in re): progressus facere in re. To improve in virtue, procedere et progredi in virtute; progressionem facere ad virtutem. To grow better in health, meliorem fieri; ex morbo convalescere; ex incommoda valetudine emergere: the patient is already beginning to improve, inclinata jam in melius aegri valetudo est: I am beginning to improve, meliuscule est mihi. To improve; of fortune, etc. Things are improving with me, meae res sunt meliore loco.