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English Dictionary: ameliorating by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ameliorating
adj
  1. tending to ameliorate [syn: ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ameliorate \A*mel"io*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ameliorated};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Ameliorating}.] [L. ad + meliorare to make
      better: cf. F. am[82]liorer. See {Meliorate}.]
      To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
  
               In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his
               own condition.                                       --Macaulay.
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