ameliorate meaning

• Verb: ameliorate  u'meelyu`reyt
  1. To make better
     - better, improve, amend, meliorate 
  2. Get better
     - better, improve, meliorate

  Derived forms: ameliorated, ameliorates, ameliorating

  See also: amelioration, ameliorative

  Type of: alter, change, change state, modify, turn

  Encyclopedia: Ameliorate

Examples

1. everyone wishes to ameliorate his own condition ...
2. the frosts of winter had ceased; its snows were melted, and its cutting winds ameliorated.
3. the motive behind it is, indeed, very often purely economic rather than vindictive, but this does not ameliorate its harmful impact.
4. it provides a kind of method to ameliorate protocol
5. study on ameliorating measures for lactose intolerance to milk