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meliorate

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/

Definition of meliorate

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To make better; to improve; to solve a problem.
    “They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement.”
    “Nature by art we nobly meliorate.”
    “June 8, 1783, George Washington, Circular to the States […] and the pure and benign light of revelation have had a meliorating influence on mankind.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To make better; to improve; to solve a problem.
    “They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement.”
    “Nature by art we nobly meliorate.”
    “June 8, 1783, George Washington, Circular to the States […] and the pure and benign light of revelation have had a meliorating influence on mankind.”
  2. (intransitive)To become better.

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Etymology

First attested in 1542; borrowed from Late Latin meliorātus, perfect passive participle of meliorō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from melior (“better”).

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