Sample sentences for AMELIORATE

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Definition

to improve — especially a bad situation

The drug ameliorates the toxic effects of chemotherapy.

ameliorates = lessens (something that is bad)

We doubled funding to ameliorate the current humanitarian emergency.

ameliorate = improve (something that is bad)

We held community meetings to understand public concern and to avoid or ameliorate the adverse effects of such a large development.

ameliorate = lessen (something that is bad)

Investors should diversify to ameliorate risk.

ameliorate = lessen (something bad)

I sought to improve her manners and ameliorate her general tone...
Dickens, Charles -- Little Dorrit
The effect was to ameliorate the too savage conditions of the fang-and-claw social struggle.
London, Jack -- The Iron Heel
The United States should support the principle that those nations closest to a crisis have a special regional responsibility to do what they can to ameliorate the crisis.
Newt Gingrich -- The Current State of UN Reform -- http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23396,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays

amelioration = improvement

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

The accused have told me and their counsel have told me that the accused who were all leaders of the non-European population were motivated entirely by a desire to ameliorate these grievances.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom

ameliorate = improve

Schools were established among them, and benevolent societies were active in efforts to ameliorate their condition.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

ameliorate = improve

There was, however, an ameliorating support system.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

ameliorating = tending to improve a bad situation

Spring drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased; its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

ameliorated = improved (something that was bad)

Knowledge and virtues were increased and diffused; arts, sciences useful to man, ameliorating their condition, were improved, more than in any period.
David McCullough -- John Adams

ameliorating = improving (something that is bad)

The work of ameliorating the conditions of life—the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure—had gone steadily on to a climax.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine

ameliorating = to improve

I sought to improve her manners and ameliorate her general tone; she (supported in this likewise by her relations) resented my endeavours.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit

ameliorate = improve

Still, the peaceful quality of his surroundings gradually ameliorated his resentment, confusion, and stubborn anger.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

ameliorated = soothed or helped to make better

There is a closer tie than is commonly supposed between the improvement of the soul and the amelioration of what belongs to the body.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2

amelioration = improvement

Philosophy should be an energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition of man.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

ameliorate = improve

Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind!
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

amelioration = improvement

I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

ameliorate = improve

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