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to improve — especially a bad situation- The drug ameliorates the toxic effects of chemotherapy.
ameliorates = improves (something that is bad)
- Investors should diversify to ameliorate risk.
- We doubled funding to ameliorate the current humanitarian emergency.
- 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)
- We held community meetings to understand public concern and to avoid or ameliorate the adverse effects of such a large development.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- There was, however, an ameliorating support system.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Still, the peaceful quality of his surroundings gradually ameliorated his resentment, confusion, and stubborn anger.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- 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
- Philosophy should be an energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition of man.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind!Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- 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
amelioration = to improve — especially a bad situation
ameliorate = to improve — especially a bad situation
ameliorate = to improve — especially a bad situation
ameliorating = tending to improve a bad situation
ameliorated = improved (something that was bad)
ameliorating = improving (something that is bad)
ameliorating = to improve
ameliorate = to improve — especially a bad situation
ameliorated = soothed or helped to make better
amelioration = to improve — especially a bad situation
ameliorate = improve
amelioration = improvement
ameliorate = improve