Ameliorate

Definitions: Ameliorate

Ameliorate

Verb

1. To make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes".

2. Get better; "The weather improved toward evening.".

Date "ameliorate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Synonyms: Ameliorate

Synonyms: amend (v), better (v), improve (v), meliorate (v). (additional references)

Antonym: worsen (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Improvement	Render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Ameliorate

English words defined with "ameliorate": Ameliorated, ameliorating, ameliorative, amelioratory ♦ meliorative. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ameliorate": ANTINEPHRITITIC, Anti-Ulcer Agents ♦ Leprostatic Agents ♦ Nicergoline ♦ Social Planning, SOCIAL WORKER, DELINQUENCY PREVENTION. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Evaluation of Energy Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions & Measures to Ameliorate (reference) Military Psychology: Stimulants to Ameliorate Sleep Loss During Sustained Operations/No 4, 1992 (Special Issue of Military Psych Vol 4;No. 4) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Figure 56. Insulated Knudsen bottle designed by the Dane Martin Knudsen in 1921 with the aid of Hans J. Neilsen. It was designed to ameliorate problems with the Pettersson and Nansen bottle. Left: ascending. Right: ascending.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		They found that such implants can partially ameliorate the movement problems exhibited by these animals. (references)
		These afford the clinician a unique opportunity to ameliorate the side effects induced by cancer therapy. (references)
		Such work is expected to yield a variety of new potential therapies that may ameliorate MS without harmful side effects. (references)
Business		The new Thessaloniki Subway to be in operation in 2005 and the upgrade of the Thessaloniki International Airport as well as the improvement of the Thessaloniki mass transportation system will further ameliorate the situation in the second largest city of Greece. (references)
Economic History	Australia	Legal expertise is needed to execute legal documentation, interpret laws and regulations, and ameliorate disputes. (references)
	Georgia	Judicial reforms initiated in the last year, including the introduction of competency exams for judges, could help to ameliorate these problems. (references)
	Equatorial Guinea	In an attempt to ameliorate his critics, Obiang announced his new cabinet, giving minor portfolios to some people identified by the government as being opposition figures. (references)
Human Rights	Romania	There were attempts to ameliorate this system by giving the inmates the right to select these "cell bosses" by vote, which has improved the situation slightly. (references)
Political Economy	Cape Verde	Although the Government supported legislation to ameliorate these problems, it failed to adopt, implement, and enforce policies designed to address the most critical challenges. (references)
Women	Greece	To ameliorate the situation, the GSES established two regional employment offices for women in Thessaloniki and Patras in 2000. It also continued to provide vocational training programs for unemployed women and programs to reinforce entrepreneurship, subsidies to women for setting up an enterprise, information and counseling to unemployed women, and it created childcare facilities to assist unemployed women to attend training courses and look for a job. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Ameliorate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Ameliorate" is used about 60 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 (infinitive)	95%	57	44,859
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.33%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	1.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	60	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ameliorate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përmirësoj (amend, better, cultivate, elevate, enrich, grade, improve, meliorate, mend, polish, reclaim, refine, reform, strengthen, upgrade). (various references)

Arabic		‏حسن (advantage, alter, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, reform, season, upgrade, well), ‏تحسن (advance, amelioration, become soundly established, betterment, change for the better, get better, get well, improve, improvement, mend, pick me up, progress, rally, recover, refinement, reform, speed up, take a turn for the better). (various references)

Bulgarian		облекчавам (allay, alleviate, appease, comfort, disburden, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, help, lighten, mitigate, palliate, redress, relieve, soothe, sweeten, unburden, unload), подобрявам (amend, better, get better, help, improve, improve on, make better, meliorate, mend, perfect, polish, polish up, rehabilitate, remedy, smarten up). (various references)

Chinese		�"�良 (Ameliorated, Ameliorating, Amelioration). (various references)

Czech		zvýšit se (climb, increase, step up), zvýšit (accelerate, bring up, build up, bump up, elevate, enhance, heighten, hot up, improve, intensify, put up, scale up, swell, turn up), zlepšit se (be on the mend, improve, meliorate, mend), zlepšit (better, brighten up, enhance, jazz, rectify, reform, uplift). (various references)

Danish		EF-handlingsprogram til forbedring af afgiftssystemerne i det indre marked (Programme of Community action to ameliorate the indirect taxation systems of the internal market). (various references)

Dutch		Communautair actieprogramma ter verbetering van de stelsels van indirecte belastingen binnen de interne markt (Programme of Community action to ameliorate the indirect taxation systems of the internal market). (various references)

Farsi		چاره کردن , اصلاح کردن (Accommodate, Accord, Alter, Correct, Emend, Improve, Modify, Reclaim, Remedy, Revise, Right), بهترکردن (Improve), بهترشدن (Improvement), بهبودی یافتن (Convalesce, Gain, Improve, Mend, Pickup, Pullround, Recover, Recuperate). (various references)

Finnish		parantaa (amend, care for, cure, heal, improve, remedy, to doctor, treat). (various references)

French		améliorer, s'améliorer. (various references)

German		verbessern (better, brighten, brighten up, correct, draw attention to and correct mistakes, emend, enhance, improve, pull up, rectify, refine, reform, strengthen, to ameliorate, to correct, to emend, to hone, to improve, to meliorate, to mend, to rectify, to reform, update, upgrade). (various references)

Greek		βελτιώνω (better, enhance, improve, improve by, meliorate, refine, touch up). (various references)

Hebrew		לשפר (better, improve, mend, reform), לשבוח (grow in value, improve), ל�"שתפר (get better, improve), ל�"שביח קרקע (reclaim). (various references)

Hungarian		javul (change for the better, get better, improve, to ameliorate, to be mending, to be on the upgrade, to change for the better, to get better, to get well, to look up, to mend, to pick up, to progress, to take a turn to the better), fejleszt (develop, generate, give off, to ameliorate, to cultivate, to give forth, to give off, to liberate). (various references)

Indonesian		memperbaiki (amend, corrective, emend, improve, improve upon, recondition, redo, restore, revise). (various references)

Italian		migliorare (amend, better, brush up, gain, get better, improve, pick up, refine on, refine upon). (various references)

Pig Latin		ameliorateay

Portuguese		aperfeiçoar (accomplish, amend, better, complete, finish, improve, mature, melioration, perfect, rarefy, refine, retouch, ripen, smooth), melhorar (advance, amend, better, breed, cultivate, enrich, gain, heal, improve, keep, meliorate, raise, rear, reform, upgrade). (various references)

Romanian		ameliora (dress, improve, improve on, improve upon, meliorate). (various references)

Russian		улучшать (develop, improve, meliorate, perfect, rectify, refine). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		poboljšati (better, get better, go one better, improve, meliorate, pick up, upgrade). (various references)

Spanish		mejorar (amend, beat, better, break, disencumber, enhance, gain, get better, greaten, improve, improve on, leak, look up, mend, pick up, progress, raise, rally, soup up, throw over, upgrade). (various references)

Swedish		förbättra (amend, emend, enhance, improve, improve on, improve upon, meliorate, mend, perfect). (various references)

Turkish		iyileştirmek (amend, better, cicatrize, cleanse, cure, heal, improve, make better, nurse, pull round, pull through, recruit, recuperate, rehabilitate, remedy, set up, upgrade), iyileşmek (amend, be recovered from, cicatrize, come along, come through, come to, convalesce, do better, get better, get well, heal, heal over, heal up, improve, meliorate, mend, perk oneself, perk oneself up, pick up, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, recruit, recuperate, return to health), geliştirmek (advance, better, boom, build up, cultivate, develop, enlarge, evolve, improve, launch out, open up, reclaim, soup up, work up), gelişmek (advance, blossom, blossom out, boom, branch out, develop, evolve, expand, flourish, flower, go ahead, grow, grow up, improve, make headway, progress, refine, shape, shape up, thrive, unfold), düzeltmek (adjust, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), düzelmek (amend, come along, do better, get better, improve, look up, meliorate, mend, recover, refine, reform, smooth down, straighten). (various references)

Ukranian		поліпшуватися (improve, look up, mend), поліпшувати (amend, batten, better, cultivate, enrich, improve, meliorate, mend). (various references)

Welsh		gwella (amend, better, improve, mend), diwygio (amend, reform, revise). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mitesco. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ameliorate": ameliorated, ameliorates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ameliorate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ameilorate, ameliarate, amelicrate, amelionate, amelioorate, amelioratre, ameliorist, ameliorite, ameliorrate, amelorate, ameloriate, amiliorate, amilliorate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ameliorate" (pronounced umē"lyerā't)
4	-y er ā' t	inaugurate.
3	-er ā' t	accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, incarcerate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: meliorate.
	-2 letters: aerolite, amitrole, areolate, material, materiel, realtime, rolamite.
	-3 letters: amirate, amreeta, areolae, atelier, emerita, emirate, loamier, maleate, maltier, marital, marlite, martial, mealier, meatier, motlier, oatmeal.
	-4 letters: aerate, aerial, amatol, amoral, amrita, aortae, aortal, areola, areole, armlet, atrial, elater, elmier, emoter, etoile, imaret, lamiae, lariat, latria, loiter, mailer, malate, maloti, mealie, meatal, melter, merlot.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: ameliorated, ameliorates.
	+2 letters: ameliorative.
	+3 letters: agglomerative, melodramatise, melodramatize.
	+4 letters: melodramatised, melodramatises, melodramatized, melodramatizes, tatterdemalion, trihalomethane.
	+5 letters: adrenalectomies, deuteranomalies, maladroitnesses, metallographies, tatterdemalions, trihalomethanes.
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