ameliorate

present singular third person ameliorates · participle present ameliorating · participle past ameliorated · past ameliorated

1. transitiveTo make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.

   They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.

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   In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.

   1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC

   Unless... you could help me find a third party. [...] Someone who can... ameliorate the situation.

   2011, Peter Gould, “Problem Dog”, in Breaking Bad, season 4, episode 7 (television production), spoken by Walter White (Bryan Cranston)

   We further show that an implementable rule for the central bank's long bond portfolio significantly ameliorates the adverse consequences of a binding ZLB on the policy rate.

   2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947

2. intransitiveTo become better; improve.