| 单词 |
bettered |
| 释义 |
bettered, ppl. a.|ˈbɛtəd| [f. as prec. + -ed.] 1. Improved, amended, rendered more excellent.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. ii. vi. 40 The bettered soil answers the swain's desire. 1874S. Cox Pilgr. Ps. i. 21 Let me find a bettered world when I come back to it. b. esp. Improved in health or condition.
1632Sir J. Eliot in Four C. Eng. Lett. 65, I find myself bettered but not well. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iii. 960 They certainly felt bettered unaware, Emerging from the social smut of towns. 2. Advantaged, that has got the better of another.
a1659Osborn Observ. Turks (1673) 343 Here the bettered Party is left so little to boast of. |

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