bessern

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German

Etymology

From the adjective besser.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɛsɐn/
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Verb

bessern (weak, third-person singular present bessert, past tense besserte, past participle gebessert, auxiliary haben)

  1. to improve, to better
    • 1932, Carl von Ossietzky, Rückkehr, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 28, no. 52, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 925:
      Das Gefängnis, das heute in Deutschland nicht mehr strafen sondern bessern und erziehen soll, ist damit sozusagen zum Lazarett der bürgerlichen Ordnung avanciert.
      The prison, which today in Germany is not supposed to punish anymore but to better and educate, has thereby advanced to the military hospital of the bourgeois order, so to speak.

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Further reading

  • bessern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • bessern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • bessern” in Duden online
  • bessern” in OpenThesaurus.de