0 past simple and past participle of better
The organization was established to better conditions for the disabled.
As a study in the social construction of scientific and clinical knowledge, this book can hardly be bettered.
The detailed knowledge of outcrops and their relations probably cannot be bettered.
As an account of high politics and covert operations in the period 1940-2, this book will not be bettered.
It can be criticised (some people, for example, do not much care for its thematic organisation) but it will not be bettered.
Perhaps any world containing conscious beings who enjoy it is bettered by a world containing the same beings enjoying their world even more.
Neither the human race nor my family will be bettered by my unhappiness.
In wild animals, natural selection will ruthlessly expunge any strategy that can be bettered at no extra cost but, of course, in nature there are resource constraints.
It is a form of thrift which cannot be bettered.