ameliorate en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
Alteration of meliorate after French améliorer.
Meanings
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(transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
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):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 Longmans, →OCLC: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. 931--947
- (intransitive) To become better; improve.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ameliorating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| ameliorated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| ameliorated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| ameliorates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
amelioratory · amelioratingly · ameliorator
Relateds
amelioration · ameliorable · inameliorable · alleviate · meliorate · mitigate · ameliorative
Translations (39)
it migliorare (to make better) · kmr çê kirin (to make better) · et heastama (to make better) · ja 改良する (to make better) · fr améliorer (to make better) · nl verbeteren (to make better) · ja 良くする (to make better) · pon kamwahwih (to make better) · ja 好転させる (to make better) · sv förbättra (to make better) · kmr baş kirin (to make better) · fi parantaa (to make better) · kk жақсарту (to make better) · mk по́добри (to make better) · ko 개선(改善)하다 (to make better) · cs zlepšit (to make better) · ru улу́чшить (to make better) · pt aperfeiçoar (to make better) · ro îmbunătăți (to make better) · ro ameliora (to make better) · kmr qenc kirin (to make better) · da forbedre (to make better) · kmr çak kirin (to make better) · pt melhorar (to make better) · kmr sax kirin (to make better) · tr iyileştirmek (to make better) · es mejorar (to make better) · cmn 改良 (to make better) · ca millorar (to make better) · gl mellorar (to make better) · cmn 改善 (to make better) · de verbessern (to make better) · ru улучша́ть (to make better) · ht amelyore (to make better) · fi kohentaa (to make better) · bg подобрявам (to make better) · et parendama (to make better) · gl aboar (to make better) · nl amelioreren (to make better)