MEANING
To improve an adverse condition or lessen its harmful effects.
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Words that belong together
- ameliorate hardship
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The supplies ameliorated their hardship.
Her intervention ameliorated the dispute.
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Word forms
- Base
- ameliorate
- Past tense
- ameliorated
- Past participle
- ameliorated
- Present participle
- ameliorating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- ameliorate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are ameliorating
- Present perfect
- have/has ameliorated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been ameliorating
- Past
- ameliorated
- Past continuous
- was/were ameliorating
- Past perfect
- had ameliorated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been ameliorating
- Future
- will ameliorate
- Future continuous
- will be ameliorating
- Future perfect
- will have ameliorated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been ameliorating
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: ameliorate; ameliorates; ameliorated; ameliorated; ameliorating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: ameliorates.
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