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improve the occasion en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To point out a moral to be learned from some event that has just occurred.
    • Then he improved the occasion to give young Finland a lecture upon the impropriety of marrying for money. 1880, The Penn Monthly, volume 11, page 784:
  2. (obsolete, slang) To celebrate with food or drink.
    • I told Jos. of my intentions, and he improved the occasion by eating four or five meals, and drinking at least a gallon of beer and a bottle of gin at my expense. 1868, Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason, Turf Frauds and Turf Practices; or, Spiders and Flies, page 24:

Forms

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improving the occasion Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
improved the occasion Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
improved the occasion Tense=Past lexicographic
improves the occasion Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic