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    amelioration
    /əˌmiːlɪəˈreɪʃn/

    noun

    • 1. the act of making something better; improvement: formal "progress brings with it the amelioration of the human condition"

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  2. Amelioration is the process of making a bad or unpleasant situation better. Learn how to use this word in sentences and see translations in different languages.

  3. Ameliorate means to make better or more tolerable, especially when something is bad or hard to endure. Learn the synonyms, examples, history, and usage of this formal verb and its noun form amelioration.

  4. Ameliorate means to make a bad or unpleasant situation better. Learn how to use this formal verb with sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus and translations in different languages.

  5. Amelioration definition: an act or instance of ameliorating or making better; the state of being ameliorated or made better. See examples of AMELIORATION used in a sentence.

  6. Amelioration is a process that makes something better. A philanthropist might devote her life to the amelioration of poverty and hunger. Any time there's amelioration, something negative is becoming more positive. If your landlord improves the water pressure and lowers the rent, that's amelioration.

  7. verb (used with or without object) , a·mel·io·rat·ed, a·mel·io·rat·ing. to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve: strategies to ameliorate negative effects on the environment. Synonyms: better, amend. Antonyms: worsen, vitiate. ameliorate. / əˈmiːljəˌreɪt; əˈmiːljərəbəl /.

  8. ameliorate. (əmiːliəreɪt ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense ameliorates , present participle ameliorating , past tense, past participle ameliorated. verb. If someone or something ameliorates a situation, they make it better or easier in some way. [formal] Nothing can be done to ameliorate the situation.