🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

amelhorar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: amelhorar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
ameliorate/əˈmiːliəreɪt/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles tentaram amelhorar as condições da estrada."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To make something bad or unsatisfactory better.

    "Steps were taken to ameliorate the working conditions in the factory."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

From Late Latin melioratus, past participle of meliorare ('to make better'), from Latin melior ('better').

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