What does ameliorate mean?

Definitions for ameliorate
əˈmil yəˌreɪt, əˈmi li ə-ame·lio·rate

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word ameliorate.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorateverb

    to make better

    "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"

  2. better, improve, ameliorate, meliorateverb

    get better

    "The weather improved toward evening"

Wiktionary

  1. ameliorateverb

    To make better, to improve; to heal; to solve a problem.

    They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.

  2. Etymology: Influenced by améliorer and a- + melior.

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  1. ameliorate

    Ameliorate is a verb that means to make something bad or unsatisfactory better or more tolerable. It is often related to improvement in conditions, problems, or negative situations.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ameliorateverb

    to make better; to improve; to meliorate

  2. Ameliorateverb

    to grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age

  3. Etymology: [L. ad + meliorare to make better: cf. F. amliorer. See Meliorate.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ameliorate

    a-mēl′yor-āt, v.t. to make better: to improve.—v.i. to grow better.—n. Ameliorā′tion, the condition of being made better: improvement or the means of such.—adj. Amel′iorative. [L. ad, to, and melior, better.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ameliorate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ameliorate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of ameliorate in a Sentence

  1. Jesse Panuccio:

    While we cannot ameliorate the irreparable harm to the victims and their families, we hope that securing this guilty plea brings them some measure of closure.

  2. Peter Wunador owads:

    Being awake and aware does not automatically change a situation, but enforcing the systems and strategies that will ameliorate the situation is your key to liberation.

  3. Dhammika Wijayasinghe:

    Sri Lanka is showing the world that it is possible to conserve mangrove forests while also improving the lives of local people, restoring wildlife habitats, and helping to ameliorate climate change.

  4. Sean Morales-Doyle:

    People on parole live and work in our cities and towns, and by automatically restoring their right to vote, New York is finally welcoming them as full participants in society. That's a crucial change, one that will ameliorate one of the vestiges of Jim Crow, due to the racial disparities in New York's criminal justice system, nearly three-quarters of those disenfranchised by the ban on voting for people on parole were Black or Latino.

  5. Philip Alston:

    But the point is that United Nations plays an important role as a catalyst in other ways, if the report is strong, it greatly helps the Uyghur campaigns in various places around the world, it should spur at least some key governments to take a stronger stand, and it would ideally persuade the Chinese that they need to further ameliorate their policies.

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