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Meliorate

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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Verb group 8

Ameliorate 84% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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Ameliorate 84% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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Amend 84% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

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Amend 84% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

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Better 84% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Better 84% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Improve 84% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

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Improve 84% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

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Manner of action 42

Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Aid 76% connected

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

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Alleviate 76% connected

To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.

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Assuage 76% connected

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisf…

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Beautify 76% connected

To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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Build 76% connected

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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Bushel 76% connected

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

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Condition 76% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Convalesce 76% connected

To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Distil 76% connected

See Distill.

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Distill 76% connected

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.

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Doctor 76% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Down 76% connected

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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Educate 76% connected

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

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Embellish 76% connected

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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Emend 76% connected

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, general…

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Enhance 76% connected

To raise or lift up; to exalt.

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Enrich 76% connected

To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Fructify 76% connected

To bear fruit.

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Heal 76% connected

To cover, as a roof, with tiles, slate, lead, or the like.

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Help 76% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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Hone 76% connected

To pine; to lament; to long.

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Lift 76% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Mend 76% connected

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

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Palliate 76% connected

Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

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Perfect 76% connected

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…

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Polish 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.

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Purify 76% connected

To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metal…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Recover 76% connected

To cover again.

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Recuperate 76% connected

To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.

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Refine 76% connected

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

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Reform 76% connected

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to am…

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Relieve 76% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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Repair 76% connected

To return.

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Restore 76% connected

To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.

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Revitalize 76% connected

To restore vitality to; to bring back to life.

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Sublimate 76% connected

To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

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Surge 76% connected

A spring; a fountain.

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Broader term 4

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Derivationally related 4

Betterment 74% connected

A making better; amendment; improvement.

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Betterment 74% connected

A making better; amendment; improvement.

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Melioration 74% connected

The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.

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Melioration 74% connected

The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.

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Causes 3

Ameliorate 72% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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Better 72% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Improve 72% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

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Synonym 4

Ameliorate 92% connected

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Amend 92% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Better 92% connected

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Improve 92% connected

To disprove or make void; to refute.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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