ameliorate\uh-MEEL-yuh-rayt\, transitive verb:
To make better; to improve.
intransitive verb:
To grow better.
Among the pressures provoking these distresses were a
father's financial inadequacy and a growing awareness that,
by finding employment himself, he could ameliorate the
family's exiguous circumstances.
--Terence Brown, [1]The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical
Biography
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