"meliorate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /miːli.əɹeɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-meliorate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: meliorates [present, singular, third-person], meliorating [participle, present], meliorated [participle, past], meliorated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin meliorāre, a verb based on Latin melior (“better”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|melioro|meliorāre}} Late Latin meliorāre, {{der|en|la|melior||better}} Latin melior (“better”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} meliorate (third-person singular simple present meliorates, present participle meliorating, simple past and past participle meliorated)
  1. (transitive) To make better; to improve; to solve a problem. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-meliorate-en-verb-Zypl1T3- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. (intransitive) To become better. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-meliorate-en-verb-4F6VyvyU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ameliorate Derived forms: meliorable, melioration, meliorative, meliorator Related terms: ameliorate

Verb [Latin]

Forms: meliōrāte [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=meliōrāte}} meliōrāte
  1. second-person plural present active imperative of meliōrō Tags: active, form-of, imperative, plural, present, second-person Form of: meliōrō
    Sense id: en-meliorate-la-verb-bB5vVENP Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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