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verb
- 1. make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better: formal "the reform did much to ameliorate living standards"
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to make a bad or unpleasant situation better: Foreign aid is badly needed to ameliorate the effects of the drought. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Making things better. add salt to something idiom. allay. alleviate. alleviation. amelioration. cultivate. lift someone up phrasal verb. lighten. liven (something) up phrasal verb.
The meaning of AMELIORATE is to make better or more tolerable. How to use ameliorate in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Ameliorate.
To ameliorate is to step in and make a bad situation better. You could try introducing a second lollipop to ameliorate a battle between two toddlers over a single lollipop. The verb ameliorate comes from the Latin word meliorare, meaning “improve.”. Food drives can ameliorate hunger.
If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way. [formal] Nothing can be done to ameliorate the situation. [VERB noun] He expected me to do something to ameliorate his depression. [VERB noun] Synonyms: improve, better, benefit, reform More Synonyms of ameliorate.
ameliorate something to make better something that was bad or not good enough. Steps have been taken to ameliorate the situation. The new laws were designed to ameliorate the problem of chronic debt. The side-effects of the treatment can be ameliorated to some extent. Topics Change, cause and effect c2
to make a bad or unpleasant situation better: Foreign aid is badly needed to ameliorate the effects of the drought. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Making things better. add salt to something idiom. allay. alleviate. alleviation. amelioration. cultivate. lighten. liven (something) up phrasal verb. lubricate. make a difference idiom.
ameliorate, v. in OED Second Edition (1989) 1. 1653–. transitive. To make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better. Also: to reduce the impact or severity of (something negative or unpleasant); to mitigate, alleviate, soften. 1653. A means to improve, and ameliorate your estate in your coinheritance with him.
Nov 4, 2017 · AMELIORATE definition: to make a problem or bad situation better. Learn more.
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ameliorate. (əmilyəreɪt ) Word forms: ameliorates, ameliorating, ameliorated. transitive verb. If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way. [formal] Synonyms: improve, better, benefit, reform More Synonyms of ameliorate. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
