meliorate

Borrowed from Late Latin meliorō, from Latin melior (“better”).

• IPA^(key): /miːli.əɹeɪt/

meliorate (third-person singular simple present meliorates, present participle meliorating, simple past and past participle meliorated)

1. (transitive) To make better; to improve; to solve a problem.

   They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement.

   • Denham

     Nature by art we nobly meliorate.

   • Washington

     The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

2. (intransitive) To become better.

• See also Thesaurus:improve
• ameliorate

• meliorable
• melioration
• meliorative
• meliorator

• ameliorate

meliōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of meliōrō