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meliorate

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aeeilmortStarts with MEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Meliorate means to get better or improve.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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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