improving

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: im=prov=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

improving, a. 

 Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better.  [1913 Webster]

Improving lease (Scots Law), an extended lease to induce the tenant to make improvements on the premises.

ROGET THESAURUS

improving

Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.