meliorate

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Late Latin meliorāre, a verb based on Latin melior (better).

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  • IPA(key): /miːli.əɹeɪt/
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Verb[edit]

meliorate (third-person singular simple present meliorates, present participle meliorating, simple 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.
    • 1648, John Denham, Cato Major:
      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. (intransitive) To become better.

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Verb[edit]

meliōrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of meliōrō