Sample Sentences for
ameliorate
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    Investors should diversify to ameliorate risk.
    ameliorate = lessen (something bad)
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    Schools were established among them, and benevolent societies were active in efforts to ameliorate their condition.  (source)
    ameliorate = improve
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    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.  (source)
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    Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind!  (source)
    amelioration = improvement
    standard suffix: 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.
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    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.  (source)
    ameliorate = improve
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    There was, however, an ameliorating support system.  (source)
    ameliorating = tending to improve a bad situation
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    Still, it had its ameliorations.†  (source)
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    Spring drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased; its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated.  (source)
    ameliorated = improved (something that was bad)
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    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.  (source)
    amelioration = improvement
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    Philosophy should be an energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition of man.  (source)
    ameliorate = improve
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    They did not belong to those generations of prostitutes created in novels, with great and generous hearts, dedicated, because of the horror of circumstance, to ameliorating, the luckless, barren life of men, taking money incidentally and humbly for their "understanding."  (source)
    ameliorating = improving
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    This is that which throws him into natural history, as a main production of the globe, and as announcing new eras and ameliorations.†  (source)
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    Still, the peaceful quality of his surroundings gradually ameliorated his resentment, confusion, and stubborn anger.  (source)
    ameliorated = soothed or helped to make better
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