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ameliorate (verb):
: to make better or more tolerable
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Ameliorate traces back to melior, the Latin adjective meaning “better,” and is a synonym of the verbs better and improve. When is it better to use ameliorate? If a situation is bad, ameliorate indicates that the conditions have been made more tolerable. Thus, one might refer to drugs that ameliorate the side effects of chemotherapy, a loss of wages ameliorated by unemployment benefits, or a harsh law ameliorated by special exceptions. Improve and better apply when something bad is being made better (as in “the weather improved” or “she bettered her lot in life”), and they should certainly be chosen over ameliorate when something good is getting better still (“he improved his successful program,” “she bettered her impressive scores”).
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