"meliorate" meaning in English

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    },
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      "expansion": "Latin melior (“better”)",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Late Latin meliorāre, a verb based on Latin melior (“better”).",
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      "form": "meliorates",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meliorating",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "meliorated",
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    },
    {
      "form": "meliorated",
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        {
          "text": "They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement."
        },
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          "text": "Nature by art we nobly meliorate.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "June 8, 1783, George Washington, Circular to the States\n[…] and the pure and benign light of revelation have had a meliorating influence on mankind."
        }
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        "To make better; to improve; to solve a problem."
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          "solve"
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          "problem",
          "problem"
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        "(transitive) To make better; to improve; to solve a problem."
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      "glosses": [
        "To become better."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become better."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/miːli.əɹeɪt/"
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    {
      "word": "meliorable"
    },
    {
      "word": "melioration"
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    {
      "word": "meliorative"
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    {
      "word": "meliorator"
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "meliorating",
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      "form": "meliorated",
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        },
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          "text": "Nature by art we nobly meliorate.",
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        "(transitive) To make better; to improve; to solve a problem."
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        "To become better."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To become better."
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