0 present participle of ameliorate
1 to make a bad or unpleasant situation better:
Ameliorating distress at the end of life can help patients to experience a more peaceful and dignified death.
As such, they fail not merely because they are objectionable but also because they do not succeed in ameliorating the identity crisis.
Here a narrative is constructed that collapses history and that reconstructs the post-war welfare state as producing, rather than ameliorating, inequalities.
In this example, the vertical axis represents support for farmers while the horizontal axis indicates concern with ameliorating the environmental impact of farming.
This innovation is modeled as a costly matching technology capable of ameliorating the trade frictions by providing deterministic double-coincidence matches.
Failure to do so may result in the temporary concealment of serious gastrointestinal pathology, classically carcinoma of the caecum, by ameliorating the diagnostic anaemia.
In this case, exercise still has a role in preserving function and ameliorating the effects of disease.
All the evidence from this study attests to the value of befriending in ameliorating the effects of social isolation.
