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ameliorateverb to make bettersocial legislation that must be given credit for ameliorating the lot of millions of deprived people amend, better, enhance, enrich, help, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine, upgrade correct, emend, rectify, reform, remediate, remedyedit, fine-tune, redraft, refurbish, rehab, rehabilitate, revamp, revise, reworkbeef (up), boost, fortify, intensify, reinforce(also reenforce), strengthenfine, hone, polishretouch, touch up worsen damage, endamage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, spoil, tarnish, vitiateblemish, blight, deface, disfigure, flaw, mardiminish, lessen, lower, reduce improve, better, help, ameliorate mean to make more acceptable or to bring nearer a standard.improve and better are general and interchangeable and apply to what can be made better whether it is good or bad.measures to further improve the quality of medical care immigrants hoping to better their lot help implies a bettering that still leaves room for improvement.a coat of paint would help that house ameliorate implies making more tolerable or acceptable conditions that are hard to endure.tried to ameliorate the lives of people in the tenements in 1656 |