improve

To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).

Painting the woodwork will improve this house.

Buying more servers would improve performance.

To become better.

I have improved since taking the tablets.

The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.

To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

to improve one's time;  to improve his means

We shall especially honour God, by discharging faithfully those offices which God hath entrusted us with: by improving diligently those talents which God hath committed to us

To disprove or make void; to refute.

One ſayth this and a nother that / but can not agre. Nether can any of them make ſo ſtronge a reaſon vvhich a nother can not improve.

To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.

[W]hen he reherſed his preachinge and his doynges vnto the hye Apoſtles / they coulde improve no thinge […]

You would improve his negligence, too oft to ease retir’d: […]