ameliorate
/əˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/
ameliorate verb: to make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
Verb
ameliorate (third-person singular simple present ameliorates, present participle ameliorating, simple past and past participle ameliorated)
- To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
- They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
- In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
- To become better; improve.
ameliorate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
ameliorate in Tamil
- சீராக்கு, உயர்ந்ததாக்கு
ameliorate in Urdu
- بہتر ہونا, بہتر بنانا, بہتر کرنا
ameliorate in Bengali
- উন্নতি সাধন করা
ameliorate in Malayalam
- make better, improve, better
- ഭേദപ്പെടുത്തുക, മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുക, നന്നാക്കുക, കൂടുതൽ നന്നാക്കുക, നല്ലതാക്കുക, പരിഷ്കരിക്കുക
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- ameliorate in Kannada
- ಮೇಲೆತ್ತು, ಒಳ್ಳೆದು ಮಾಡು, ಉತ್ತಮಗೊಳಿಸು, ಸುಧಾರಿಸು
Examples of ameliorate in a sentence
- Unless... you could help me find a third party. [...] Someone who can... ameliorate the situation.2011, Peter Gould, “Problem Dog”, in Breaking Bad, season 4, episode 7 (television production), spoken by Walter White (Bryan Cranston):
- We further show that an implementable rule for the central bank's long bond portfolio significantly ameliorates the adverse consequences of a binding ZLB on the policy rate.2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp....
Antonyms of ameliorate
Forms of ameliorate
| third-person singular present | ameliorates |
|---|---|
| present participle | ameliorating |
| past participle | ameliorated |
| past | ameliorated |
Origin of ameliorate
Alteration of meliorate after French améliorer.
Words formed from ameliorate
Questions about ameliorate
- What does ameliorate mean?
- Ameliorate means to make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
- What is ameliorate in Tamil?
- Ameliorate in Tamil is சீராக்கு, உயர்ந்ததாக்கு. See Ameliorate meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use ameliorate in a sentence?
- Unless... you could help me find a third party. [...] Someone who can... ameliorate the situation.
- What part of speech is ameliorate?
- Ameliorate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce ameliorate?
- Ameliorate is pronounced /əˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/.
- What is the past tense of ameliorate?
- The past tense of ameliorate is ameliorated.
Words near ameliorate in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ameliorate (page history and authors); ameliorate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ameliorate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ameliorate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ameliorate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ameliorate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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