Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make better.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make better.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To make better;
improve .
Etymologies
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Examples
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- “I want to thank the dozens of welfare-to-work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves.”
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"I want to thank the dozens of welfare-to-work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves."
Bushisms 2009
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"I want to thank the dozens of welfare-to-work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves."
January 2009 2009
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"I want to thank the dozens of welfare-to-work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves."
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I mean, part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself [and butter yourself] and get closer to the Lord [not of the Flies].
Archive 2008-05-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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I mean, part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself [and butter yourself] and get closer to the Lord [not of the Flies].
READING BETWEEN THE LINES News from Mad Plato 2008
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Ours is a relationship that recognizes that, through economic prosperity, people can embetter themselves.
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What happens is, dedicated citizens decide they're going to do something to embetter (sic) the community in which they live and, without government, say, "Let's go," or, "Let's roll," "Let's make it happen."
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"I want to thank the dozens of welfare-to-work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves."
word of mouth 2009
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- "I want to thank the dozens of welfare-to-work stories, the actual examples of people who made the firm and solemn commitment to work hard to embetter themselves."
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