meliorate

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /miːli.əɹeɪt/

Verb

meliorate (meliorates, present participle meliorating; past and past participle meliorated)

1. (transitive) To make better; to improve; to solve a problem.

   They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement.

   • Nature by art we nobly meliorate.

   • The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

2. (intransitive) To become better.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:improve
• ameliorate

Related terms

• ameliorate

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