Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing, or having a tendency to produce, amelioration or amendment: as, ameliorative medicines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to repair or
ameliorate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to ameliorate
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Examples
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Hmm, not sure I want to live in a country where someone can undergo torture and then without receiving any kind of ameliorative mental treatment be considered competent to stand trial.
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When they asked for some kind of ameliorative measures, we gave them none.
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In Time rails against life's limits and proposes that they can be overcome by ameliorative acts like robbing banks.
Govindini Murty: In Time and Tower Heist: Can Robbing the Rich Solve Inequality? Govindini Murty 2011
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Hopefully Mary Kate Hurley's paper on time in the Old English Orosius will have an ameliorative effect.
Archive 2009-05-01 Prof. de Breeze 2009
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In Time rails against life's limits and proposes that they can be overcome by ameliorative acts like robbing banks.
Govindini Murty: In Time and Tower Heist: Can Robbing the Rich Solve Inequality? Govindini Murty 2011
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In Time rails against life's limits and proposes that they can be overcome by ameliorative acts like robbing banks.
Govindini Murty: In Time and Tower Heist: Can Robbing the Rich Solve Inequality? Govindini Murty 2011
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I did suffer from brain-fag on occasion, but alcohol never suggested itself as an ameliorative.
Chapter 26 2010
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Hopefully Mary Kate Hurley's paper on time in the Old English Orosius will have an ameliorative effect.
De Breeze's First Theorem of Kalamazoo Prof. de Breeze 2009
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But does it have to be so much so, or can some (different) public policy choices have an ameliorative effect?
Only Rep. Frank could go kill health care rationing… - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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Given the disproportionate casualty rate among males compared to females in the military and the current “gender apartheid” in the Armed Forces, surely an ameliorative affirmative action draft is in order?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Diane Wood on the Second Amendment 2010
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