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betteringverbpresent participle of better to be greater, better, or stronger thanthis year's profits should better last year's by a wide margin beating, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outclassing, outdistancing, outdoing, outgunning, outmatching, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, towering (over), transcending one-upping, outpacing, outracing, outrunning, overpassingbesting, clobbering, conquering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mastering, outcompeting, outperforming, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), routing, shaming, skunking, subduing, surmounting, thrashing, trimming, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whipping, winning (against), worstingoutbalancing, outweighing, overbearing, overshadowing, trumping going one better, running circles around(or running rings around) losing (to) to make bettersocial workers and reformers trying to better the lives of inner-city residents ameliorating, amending, enhancing, enriching, helping, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining, upgrading correcting, emending, rectifying, reforming, remediating, remedyingediting, fine-tuning, redrafting, refurbishing, rehabbing, rehabilitating, revamping, revising, reworkingbeefing (up), boosting, fortifying, intensifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningfining, honing, polishingretouching, touching up worsening damaging, endamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, spoiling, tarnishing, vitiatingblemishing, blighting, defacing, disfiguring, flawing, marringdiminishing, lessening, lowering, reducing |