Ameliorate

ahd-5
  • transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become better; improve.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make better, or more tolerable, satisfactory, prosperous, etc.; improve; meliorate.
  • Synonyms Amend, Improve, Better, etc. See amend.
  • To grow better; meliorate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To grow better; to meliorate.
  • transitive verb. To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make better, to improve; to heal; to solve a problem.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. to make better
  • verb. get better
  • Word Usage
    "Can activity ameliorate its slow advance - and maintain vocabulary retrieval skills, so that the word "ameliorate" leaps to mind when needed?"
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