ameliorate
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Borrowed from French améliorer.
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ameliorate (third-person singular simple present ameliorates, present participle ameliorating, simple past and past participle ameliorated)
- (transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
- They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.
- 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
- 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.
- (intransitive) To become better; improve.
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- See also Thesaurus:improve
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to make better
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