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better

4 verb
     
better4 [transitive]
1 to be higher in quality, amount etc than someone or something else:
His total of five gold medals is unlikely to be bettered.
2

better yourself

to improve your position in society by getting a better education or earning more money
3 formal to improve something:
bettering the lot of the working classes
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