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get better in English:

1. get over get over


You'll get over this, Riley, I promise.
get over cold
In real life you have a bit more time to recover from the rejection, to get over it. / He helped me get over that.
How long do you think it usually takes people to get over a break-up?
It can take weeks to get over an illness like that. He got over his dog death.
get over the wall, get over the problem
How soon will Phoebe get over if her plans don’t work out?
Honey helps many people get over a cold
I cant get over that you got divorced
People get over all sorts of disabilities and recover from all sorts of things.
She was only just getting over the flu when she got a stomach bug. It took him years to get over the shock of his wife dying. It took her months to get over Rupert when he finished the relationship.
Katy was really upset when she failed the test. She thought she would never get over feeling so stupid.
She’s just getting over the ​flu. I can’t get over how ​short he is (= it ​surprised me).
Definition if you get over an illness or other problem, you become better again and things are back to normal
I need to get over that flu as soon as possible because I'm going on holiday in two weeks.

English word "get better"(get over) occurs in sets:

Illness: feeling under the weather

2. Go from strength to strength Go from strength to strength



3. improve improve


There are abilities that improve rapidly and those that improve slowly, aren't there?
To improve your fluency, you should try speaking with native speakers as often as you can.
improve communication
If the more advanced want to improve English ability (especially reading comprehension) increasing vocabulary is the way to go.
In order to improve the students' attitude to their studies, the school let them start class an hour later.
Doctors can be wrong, and some patients can suddenly improve.
He didn't waste a single minute, thinking constantly about how to survive and how to improve his condition.
Don't forget to take advantage of all the resources available on the Internet to help you improve your English. There are a lot of things like videos, music, audio files, films and other interesting things.
I dreamt that Congress effected sensible tax reform to improve the lot of the working class. I then woke up in a gutter with nothing but ragged clothes and a stolen guitar to my name.
Maybe I should add some sentences without translations too. It's a very quick way to improve the rating of your language.
Lately, I've been letting my English go. It seems I'll never improve at it, no matter how many years I study.
It's so easy to write good example sentences, that even if we accidentally delete a few good sentences in the process of getting rid of a whole lot of bad ones, I think we could drastically improve the quality of this corpus by doing a lot of deleting.
Remember, good manners help to improve your working environment, and you will find you can enjoy your work more.
1. I'm going to change and improve my life. / 2. I think I can improve the resolution. / 3. I have some ideas on how we can improve the girls' soccer team.
In order to improve your language skills, try to find books written in the language you are learning.

4. heal heal


He pretended to heal patients but never managed to.
In older people, wounds take a long time to heal.
A sprain like this should heal within a week or so.
It takes time to heal from a divorce.
Physician, heal thyself.
I Healed her, and she is sleeping. I want to learn how to heal with magic.
While the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.
Apologizing isn't going to heal hundreds of second-degree burns, sir.
He sustained an injury which will take a month to heal completely.
A sick soul that holds on tight to anger and hate will never heal until it lets go of those demons.
We don't heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living fully in the present.
Time heals many wounds
Jesus can heal your pain in your heart.
Definition if a wound or a broken bone heals or if something heals it, it recovers and becomes well again
What should you do if a wound doesn't heal properly?

English word "get better"(heal) occurs in sets:

Advanced 3 (Just for the Health of It!)

5. recover from recover from


I recover from a flu.
it takes a long time to recover from surgery

6. on the mend on the mend