The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.
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A making better; amendment; improvement.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.of Broaden
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thi…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate dept…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expre…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.The state of being impaired; injury.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile;…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we rea…
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Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.The act of repositing; a laying up.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.(biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; "cell differentiation in the developing embryo"
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.A particular or peculiar case; a particularity.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Semantic change.The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.
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A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.Alt. of Analyser
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with ref…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, he…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.The art of criticism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.Distorted; misshapen.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.How far research results can be applied to other people or situations.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability; "Although useful, such samples are not representative of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: meaning, study, analysis.A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
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