Bettering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BETTERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• improve on or surpass (an existing or previous level or achievement)
• make (something) better; improve
• achieve a higher social position or status
• overcome or defeat (someone)
NOUN:
• improvement
• the better one; that which is better
• one's superiors in social class or ability
ADVERB:
• more excellently or effectively
• to a greater degree; more (used in connection with success or with desirable actions or conditions)
• more suitably, appropriately, or usefully
ADJECTIVE:
• more desirable, satisfactory, or effective
• more appropriate, advantageous, or well advised
• partly or fully recovered from illness, injury, or mental stress
• changing for the better
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to improve

Words related to BETTERING

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Words that contain BETTERING

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How to use BETTERING in a sentence

• Croix was released, when he flew to the Marchioness and instructed her in the art, in order that she might employ it in bettering the circumstances of both.
• Dundas had proposed to abolish the Slave Trade, by bettering the state of the slaves in the islands, and particularly that of their offspring.
• He went to his master and told him that he had an opportunity for bettering himself, and should not work for him any longer.
• They had no idea of the things we had done and the progress we had made in bettering the working conditions of labour generally.
• Whether to take that one chance or to use his next play in bettering his lie was the question.
• He had told them that she was with her relatives, and in their doubts they had decided not to intrude into a situation which they knew no way of bettering.
• It is the semi-prosperous middle class who emigrate in the hope of bettering their condition.
• About this time, also, Taylor began to write a series of novels, in the hope of bettering his fortunes thereby.
• In so doing they will come to see how needful are a few lessons from the healthy life and speech of those days, to be applied in the bettering of our own.
• All these men are banded together for the frank purpose of bettering their condition, regardless of the harm worked thereby upon all other classes.
• This strike ends in a little bettering, and a few people read my paper.
• Why try to talk things out with her? Why hurt her? Why not let things drift along? There was no hope of bettering them.
• They would have cheated, loved, and despised a more easy landlord, and his property would have gone to ruin, without either permanently bettering their interests or their morals.
• Such being the temper of his mind, Tasso at this epoch turned his thoughts to bettering himself, as servants say.
• They cannot have what they want, in the way they wish, without increasing or bettering the property of which they have taken possession.
• From the beginning Doctor Grenfell devoted himself not only to healing the sick, but also to bettering the condition of the fishermen.
• It is the more to his credit that as soon as he got a couple of hundred pounds ahead, he resolved to spend it in bettering his mind.
• Stewart was taking silent but effective measures for bettering his condition.
• They were discussing all probable methods of bettering their condition.
• I returned from college to spend the long vacation at home, and made some advances toward bettering my acquaintance with young Monkton.
• A young Polish girl was brought by her widowed mother to America, in hope of bettering their condition.
• Washington, however, was still permitted to rest securely in Valley Forge, where he omitted no opportunity of bettering the condition of his forces.
• I would have you recollect that you have now a proposal made you of bettering their present and future condition.
• He could discover numerous ways of bettering the conditions of affairs, and took keen delight in making changes calculated to lessen the friction of camp life.
• We have always stayed at the same place farmers and hunters not bettering our lot and very plain.
• The early settlers on these coasts were led by various motives, some political, some religious, but far the largest part economic, the motive of bettering their worldly condition.
• Dundas had proposed to abolish the Slave-trade, by bettering the state of the slaves in the islands, and particularly that of their offspring.
• Out of this deep, inward, creative power issue all theories and practice for the bettering of human conditions.
• He thought she might have passed into the white basis for the sake of bettering her fortunes.
• We have treated with Texas as an independent power solely with a view of bettering the condition of the two countries.
• He was an earnest worker for bettering the condition of the working classes, and this object was the basis of most of his writings.
• It was in the hope of bettering them that he had come to Madrid, relying solely upon his genius.
• It is urged on by the desire of bettering its condition.
• There was no prospect of his ever bettering himself or her.
• Never has deeper interest followed every movement for the understanding and bettering of conditions.
• Personally she was inclined to spend her money in bettering the world right off, in such ways as might from time to time seem attractive.
• Colonel Cresswell, with the perversity of the simple-minded, had taken the sudden bettering of their fortunes as his own doing.
• I, neglecting all worldly ends buried among my books, did dedicate my whole time to the bettering of my mind.

Similar words containing BETTER without suffix ing

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