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Definition
to improve — especially a bad situation
- In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent of newmown hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity.Episode 17 — Ithaca (67% in)
There are no more uses of "ameliorate" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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