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Word Meanings - AMELIORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

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  • AMENDFUL
    Much improving.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • REFORMATIVE
    Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
  • CORRECTLY
    In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
  • AMELIORATE
    To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • CORRUPTIBLE
    1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
  • MELIORATER
    See MELIORATOR
  • HUMANIZE
    To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph. (more info) 1. To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize. Was it the business
  • IMPROVER
    One who, or that which, improves.
  • CORRECTORY
    Containing or making correction; corrective.
  • EXALTMENT
    Exaltation. Barrow.
  • ENNOBLE
    Etym: 1. To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify. "Ennobling all that he touches." Trench. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope. 2. To raise to the rank
  • CORRECTIFY
    To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
  • REFINED
    Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
  • CORRUPTION
    1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
  • RESTORE
    Restoration. Spenser.
  • ENNOBLER
    One who ennobles.
  • BETTERMOST
    Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
  • CORRUPTIVE
    Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • PREFINE
    To limit beforehand. Knolles.
  • INCORRECT
    1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
  • PREFORMATIVE
    A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
  • UNCORRUPTIBLE
    Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
  • UNIMPROVED
    1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
  • SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
    The aggrandizement of one's self.
  • DECIVILIZE
    To reduce from civilization to a savage state. Blackwood's Mag.

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