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| Concept: | Improvement. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend., advance (progress); ascend; increase; 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., be better, 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; invigorate (strengthen)., 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 (restore); put in order (arrange)., review, revise; make corrections, make improvements; doctor (remedy); purify., 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.
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| Antonyms: | deterioration |
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| Main Entry: | progress |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | remedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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abstersive, aesculapian, alexipharmic, alexiteric, alimentary, allopathic, alterative, alviducous, analeptic, analgesic, anatriptic, anodyne, anodynic, antiorgastic, antiphlogistic, antipruritic, balsamic, bechic, bezoardic, broad, chirurgical, corrective, corroborant, curable, demulcent, depuratory, detergent, detersive, dietetic, disinfectant, emollient, epulotic, febrifugal, febrifuge, healing, hypnotic, intravenous, lenitive, medical, medicinal, mundificant, narcotic, neurotic, nutritious, nutritive, palliative, paregoric, peptic, prophylactic, recuperative, remediable, remedial, restorative, salutiferous, sanative, sanatory, sedative, squinant, stegnotic, therapeutic, theriacal, tonic, traumatic, vaccine, vulnerary
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| Concept: | [Motion forward; progressive motion] Progression. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one's course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides (velocity) [more]; go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway.
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| Antonyms: | regression |
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| Concept: | Remedy. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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| Antonyms: | bane |
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