Meliorate

Definitions: Meliorate

Meliorate

Verb

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

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

Date "meliorate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Meliorate

Synonyms: ameliorate (v), amend (v), better (v), improve (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: Meliorate

English words defined with "meliorate": Meliorated, Meliorating. (references)

Etymologies containing "meliorate": Meliority. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Greece	Several additional infrastructure projects are being developed in Athens in order to meliorate transportation in the metropolitan area. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Their adoption would promote the public service and meliorate the condition of the Army.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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

Bulgarian		подобрявам (ameliorate, amend, better, get better, help, improve, improve on, make better, mend, perfect, polish, polish up, rehabilitate, remedy, smarten up). (various references)

Czech		zvelebit (develop), zlepšit se (ameliorate, be on the mend, improve, mend). (various references)

German		verbessern (ameliorate, better, brighten, brighten up, correct, 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		καλυτερεύω (better, get better, improve), βελτιώνω (ameliorate, better, enhance, improve, improve by, refine, touch up), βελτιώνομαι (ameliorate, better oneself, improve, mend, pick up), βελτιώ (improve, mend, touch up), βελτίωση (amelioration, betterment, improvement, improvement in, melioration, pickup, refinement, retrieval, upturn). (various references)

Hungarian		megjavít (improve, to accommodate, to ameliorate, to amend, to fix, to improve, to put in repair, to put right, to refit, to set right). (various references)

Pig Latin		elioratemay

Portuguese		melhorar (advance, ameliorate, amend, better, breed, cultivate, enrich, gain, heal, improve, keep, raise, rear, reform, upgrade), substância explosiva (lye). (various references)

Romanian		ameliora (ameliorate, dress, improve, improve on, improve upon), îmbunãtãţi (amend, better, improve, make smth. better, mend). (various references)

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

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

Spanish		bonificar (credit, improve, refund, reimburse, take into account). (various references)

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

Thai		บรรเทา (ease, lessen, mitigate, slake, still). (various references)

Turkish		iyileşmek (ameliorate, amend, be recovered from, cicatrize, come along, come through, come to, convalesce, do better, get better, get well, heal, heal over, heal up, improve, mend, perk oneself, perk oneself up, pick up, pull round, pull through, rally, recover, recruit, recuperate, return to health), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, 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 (ameliorate, amend, come along, do better, get better, improve, look up, mend, recover, refine, reform, smooth down, straighten). (various references)

Ukranian		меліорувати (reclaim), поліпшувати (ameliorate, amend, batten, better, cultivate, enrich, improve, mend). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "meliorate": meliorated, meliorates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "meliorate": ameliorate. (additional references)
	Words containing "meliorate": ameliorated, ameliorates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Meliorate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: detiorate, heliroute, Malgorzata, Meliboia, Meliora, meliorare, meliorist. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: aerolite, amitrole, materiel, realtime, rolamite.
	-2 letters: atelier, emerita, emirate, loamier, maltier, marlite, mealier, meatier, motlier.
	-3 letters: areole, armlet, elater, elmier, emoter, etoile, imaret, loiter, mailer, maloti, mealie, melter, merlot, meteor, metier, milter, mitral, moiler, molter, morale, mortal, motile, oleate, omelet, ramtil, reemit, relate, remail, remate, remelt, remote, retail, reteam, retial, retile, retime, rialto.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: ameliorate, meliorated, meliorates.
	+2 letters: allometries, ameliorated, ameliorates, calorimeter, dilatometer, elastomeric, endometrial, geometrical, meliorative, meteoroidal, polarimeter, salinometer, temporalize.
	+3 letters: ameliorative, calorimeters, dilatometers, immoderately, meteorically, meteoritical, polarimeters, radioelement, salinometers, temporalized, temporalizes, thermohaline, thermolabile, ventromedial.
	+4 letters: agglomerative, calorimetries, cephalometric, ceremonialist, dermatologies, dilatometries, environmental, extemporarily, geometrically, melodramatise, melodramatize, metalliferous, metronidazole, myoelectrical, overemotional, overstimulate, petrochemical, polarimetries, predominately, radioelements, temerariously, temporalities.
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