0 past simple and past participle of improvise
1 to invent or make something, such as a speech or a device, at the time when it is needed without already having planned it:
It mattered that we 'offered ministry', rather than 'improvised'.
The actors improvised the scenes until the moment where the husband returns at night, after the wife has uncovered the mystery of the letters.
There the mellifluous voices of choirboys, the harmony of improvised polyphony, and the cadences of locally composed plainchant incited the populace to veneration.
The kinaesthetic nature and role of musical gestures in young children's music-making highlights the spontaneity through which improvised forms emerge.
As a result, the various metric placements of the riff give the studio version a looser, more improvised feel.
Improvised music is an uncertain activity, characterised by a lack of top-down organisation and busy, local activity between improvisers.
A second layer of improvised additions was imposed over the concise and basic house types.
The performance changed and evolved from night to night, since the actors embedded personal experience into the performance and partly improvised.
