meliorate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin meliorāre, a verb based on Latin melior (“better”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /miːli.əɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb[edit]
meliorate (third-person singular simple present meliorates, present participle meliorating, simple past and past participle meliorated)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To become better.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:improve
- ameliorate
Derived terms[edit]
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Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
meliōrāte
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