Ameliorating

Definition: Ameliorating

Ameliorating

Adjective

1. Tending to ameliorate.

Date "ameliorating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Ameliorating

Domain	Definitions
Health	A changeable condition which prevents the consequence of a failure or accident from becoming as bad as it otherwise would. (references)
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Synonyms: Ameliorating

Synonyms: ameliorating(a) (adj), ameliorative (adj), amelioratory (adj), meliorative (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ameliorating

Specialty definitions using "ameliorating": ameliorating factor. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ameliorating

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Botulinum toxin therapy is effective in ameliorating the symptoms and restoring fluency. (references)
		Most of the pretreatment as well as treatment protocols aimed at preventing or ameliorating oral complications of anticancer therapy require patient adherence to prescribed oral hygiene procedures. (references)
Economic History	Romania	U.S. companies should pay attention to ameliorating these attitudes in their operations. (references)
Political Economy	Guinea	New government initiatives, such as one-stop business registration and the creation of an arbitration court to handle business disputes, are aimed at ameliorating the situation by facilitating procedures and increasing transparency within these systems. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Ameliorating

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Due in great part to the generosity of the American people and the leadership exercised in the international arena by the United States, we have played the pivotal role in ameliorating massive suffering in Kampuchea.
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Usage Frequency: Ameliorating

"Ameliorating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Ameliorating" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	86.67%	13	97,576
Adjective (general or positive)	13.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Ameliorating

Expression using "ameliorating": ameliorating factor. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ameliorating

Language		Translations for "ameliorating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�良 (Ameliorate, Ameliorated, Amelioration). (various references)

Danish		modvirkende faktor (ameliorating factor). (various references)

Dutch		verbeteraar (ameliorant, ameliorating agent), schadebeperkende factor (ameliorating factor). (various references)

Finnish		lieventävä tekijä (ameliorating factor). (various references)

French		amélioration du bien-fonds (ameliorating waste), produit améliorant (ameliorant, ameliorating agent), facteur d'amélioration (ameliorating factor). (various references)

German		verbessernd (emending, improving, meliorating, mending, rectifying). (various references)

Greek		παράγοντας βελτίωσης (ameliorating factor). (various references)

Italian		fattore di miglioramento (ameliorating factor). (various references)

Pig Latin		amelioratingay

Portuguese		factor de melhoramento (ameliorating factor). (various references)

Spanish		factor de mejora (ameliorating factor). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Ameliorating

Misspellings
	"Ameliorating" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ameliorarting. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ameliorating

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: meliorating, migrational.
	-2 letters: eliminator, emigration, martingale, trigeminal.
	-3 letters: alienator, animalier, antiglare, aragonite, genitalia, laminator, lariating, loitering, marginate, migration, morganite, originate, rationale, remailing, retailing, tailoring, trameling, trinomial.
	-4 letters: aerating, aeration, agential, agminate, alarming, alerting, alginate, altering, amitrole, animater, animator, antimale, argental, egomania, emailing, emanator, emigrant, enigmata, gainlier, gelation, geranial, geraniol, germinal, gliomata, ignorami, imaginal, imaginer.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-l-m-n-o-r-t"
	+3 letters: deglamorization, melodramatising, melodramatizing.
	+4 letters: deglamorizations.
	+5 letters: catecholaminergic, congregationalism, multigenerational.
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