meliorate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb to make better
    better; amend; ameliorate; improve.
    • The editor improved the manuscript with his changes
  2. verb get better
    better; ameliorate; improve.
    • The weather improved toward evening

WordNet

Mel"io*rate transitive verb
Etymology
L. melioratus, p. p. of meliorare to meliorate, fr. melior better; akin to Gr. rather, very. Cf. Ameliorate.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Meliorated ; present participle & verbal noun Meliorating
Definitions
  1. To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
    Nature by art we nobly meliorate. Denham.
    The pure and bening light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. Washington.
Mel"io*rate intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To grow better.

Webster 1913