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ameliorate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | better, improve, meliorate |
| Type of | turn, change state |
| Has types | fructify, upgrade, surge, straighten out, turn around, see the light, get over, recuperate, recover, pick up, bounce back, mend, heal, get well, reform, convalesce |
| Verb group | better, amend, improve, meliorate |
| Derivation | amelioration, ameliorative, amelioratory |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| Type of | alter, modify, change |
| Has types | fine-tune, fix, develop, fructify, furbish up, condition, bushel, build up, help, hone, aid, iron out, lift, make pure, upgrade, mend, build, palliate, perfect, polish, prettify, purify, put right, raise, repair, educate, embellish, emend, enhance, enrich, fancify, alleviate, distill, doctor, advance, refine, reform, beautify, regenerate, relieve, down, restore, revitalize, assuage, straighten out, sublimate, touch on, turn around |
| Verb group | better, meliorate, improve |
| Derivation | amelioration, ameliorative, amelioratory |
Examples of ameliorate
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So you have the blues and then to ameliorate the situation you play the blues.
From the orlandosentinel.com
We might as well change the institutions to ameliorate further misconceptions.
From the economist.com
If her slate wins, it will make history and help ameliorate an inequitable system.
From the suntimes.com
Consequently, there are clear steps that must be taken to ameliorate stresses.
From the sciencedaily.com
Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by many pathogens.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Trying to ameliorate the broken souls of young boys was a losing proposition.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Policy makers have hoped that growing more trees would help ameliorate the problem.
From the sciencedaily.com
Reitz's first task was to ameliorate this situation, which he did with much vigour.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In other words, does it actually ameliorate behavioral and academic problems?
From the ideas.time.com
- Better: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
- Ameliorating(a): tending to ameliorate
- (amelioration) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
- Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression or semantic drift) is the evolution of word usageu2014usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage. In diachronic (or historical) linguistics, semantic change is a change in one of the meanings of a word...
- To make better, to improve; to heal; to solve a problem
- (Amelioration) The addition to juice or natural wine before, during, or after fermentation of either water or pure dry sugar, or a combination of water and sugar, to adjust the acid level.
- (Amelioration) A term literally meaning improvement, it is a euphemism for chemical intervention in winemaking. This refers to techniques used in areas where nature is deficient. This includes chaptalization, the addition of sugar for the purpose of raising the alcohol level, and acidification.
- (Amelioration) In wine production, the enhancement of the quality of a must or juice, such as changing acidity, pH or sugar level
- (amelioration) The process in which DNA that has been acquired by lateral gene transfer changes in composition (e.g., G + C content and codon usage) to resemble the genome in which it resides.
