Usually means: Make something bad, better gradually.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word ameliorate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. ameliorate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ameliorate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ameliorate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ameliorate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ameliorate: Vocabulary.com
  6. ameliorate: Wordnik
  7. ameliorate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ameliorate: Wiktionary
  9. ameliorate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ameliorate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ameliorate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ameliorate, ameliorate: Dictionary.com
  13. Ameliorate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ameliorate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ameliorate: Rhymezone
  16. Ameliorate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ameliorate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ameliorate: Free Dictionary
  19. ameliorate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ameliorate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. ameliorate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. ameliorate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ameliorate: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ameliorate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ameliorate: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ameliorate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.
verb:  (intransitive) To become better; improve.

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    sky blue,     mint green,     lavender,     peach,     coral,     aqua,     periwinkle,     sage,     blush,     ivory



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