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meliorate

verb
/ˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/

Etymology

First attested in 1542; borrowed from Late Latin meliorātus, perfect passive participle of meliorō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from melior (“better”).

  1. borrowed from meliorātus

Definitions

  1. To make better

    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.
    • June 8, 1783, George Washington, Circular to the States […] and the pure and benign light of revelation have had a meliorating influence on mankind.

  2. To become better.

The neighborhood

Derived

meliorable, meliorater, melioration, meliorative, meliorator

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