ameliorate
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve.
ameliorates
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present tense formof ameliorate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But a strange, melancholic case of timing ameliorates the documentary’s primary flaw: It didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024
"Overall, greater international co-operation is needed to ensure that ESG and climate transition-related practices progress in a manner that ameliorates the current market fragmentation, and strengthens investor confidence and market integrity."
From Reuters ● Oct. 4, 2021
Charity, while wonderful, ameliorates the symptoms of inequality, but it does not address its root causes.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2020
You say “at first” you turned down their advances, as if that somehow ameliorates your later decision to accept their advances.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2019
The Sanitary Commission is one of the best out-croppings of self-government, and does honor to the people, and softens and ameliorates the warlike roughness of the times.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
