Sample Sentences for
ameliorate
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    Investors should diversify to ameliorate risk.
    ameliorate = lessen (something bad)
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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)
    ameliorate = improve
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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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    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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    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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    And thus Henchard found himself again on the precise standing which he had occupied a quarter of a century before. Externally there was nothing to hinder his making another start on the upward slope, and by his new lights achieving higher things than his soul in its half-formed state had been able to accomplish. But the ingenious machinery contrived by the Gods for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum—which arranges that wisdom to do shall come pari passu with the departure of zest for doing—stood in the way of all that.  (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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    contemplating the relation of these general representatives to each other we discover what is really important to men, so, by the repetition and continuance of this act, our feelings will be connected with important subjects, till at length, if we be originally possessed of much sensibility, such habits of mind will be produced, that, by obeying blindly and mechanically the impulses of those habits, we shall describe objects, and utter sentiments, of such a nature and in such connection with each other, that the understanding of the being to whom we address ourselves, if he be in a healthful state of association, must necessarily be in some degree enlightened, and his affections ameliorated.†  (source)
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