verb
Pronunciation: ['mee-lyêr-eyt]
Definition: To make or become better, to improve.
Usage: We at YourDictionary are always looking for ways to make speech more efficient. Today we offer a way to save you a syllable in expressing "ameliorate"—just skip the initial [a]. In fact, "meliorate" was the original word, appearing as early as 1552, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. "Ameliorate," influenced by French "améliorer," first appeared in Swinburn's 'Travels in Spain' in 1767. All the forms of "ameliorate" are also available from "meliorate," including meliorable "improvable," meliorative "making better," the action noun "melioration," and the agent noun, meliorator "one who makes things better."
Suggested Usage: One of the most gratifying aspects of the current world is the spacious room it allows for improvement. This means that today's word will always find work, "You could meliorate your life (and mine) immensely by whining less about yourself and thinking more of others." In fact, human relationships provide multitudinous opportunities for melioration, "Would it meliorate our relationship if I spent less time with you?" It is an option we seldom think of.
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