0 present participle of better
The organization was established to better conditions for the disabled.
A heuristic approach to bettering this situation is adopted here.
Yet, music, as a special form of bettering life, is not interchangeable with philosophy.
Several of the activist leaders were inspired by personal hardships to devote themselves to bettering the lives of others.
Surely no one would dispute the claim that the aim of bettering humanity and/or our own children is morally acceptable.
Second, how are we to decide what really counts as "bettering" them?
The move towards "bettering" individuals for work and consequently asking them to pay for it serves only to reinforce my disquiet.
He is denied that opportunity of bettering himself because of this contractual obligation.
He gets all the advantages of being on the establishment, and also slightly increased wages, and therefore we are bettering the whole class.
