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ameliorate

/uh-meel-yuh-reyt, uh-mee-lee-uh-/US // əˈmil yəˌreɪt, əˈmi li ə- //UK // (əˈmiːljəˌreɪt) //

缓和,改善,缓解,缓和气氛

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  1. 1

    a·mel·io·rat·ed, a·mel·io·rat·ing.

    • : to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve: strategies to ameliorate negative effects on the environment.

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Examples

  • Fixing the current situation will involve ameliorating their effects and recognizing Haitians as fellow human beings, our neighbors with whom we share a long history.

  • His decree for a day of national prayer, fasting and humiliation did little to ameliorate cholera’s lethal spread, but it might have made tens of thousands of Americans feel a bit better before meeting their maker.

  • I hope to one day ameliorate these stressors, so that you don’t have to anymore.

  • These pro-labor policies did much to ameliorate the wide disparity between rich and poor and led to nearly a half-century of middle-class growth.

  • For a few years now, my colleagues and I have been exploring the potential of these networks to find more ways drugs could ameliorate disease.

  • He wants to attack the root causes of poverty rather than simply ameliorate root symptoms.

  • At the time, Bratton sought to ameliorate the tension between the LAPD and Muslims.

  • Our first priority should be to ameliorate those circumstances.

  • Scientists therefore have to examine all those genes en masse to cure or ameliorate the disease.

  • “Isolation itself is very damaging, and there is no way to ameliorate it,” Kupers told The Daily Beast.

  • Still the King managed to retain his popularity, and in his own way attempted to ameliorate the lot of his subjects.

  • And the Church never, never raised a finger to ameliorate their condition.

  • That was an evil with which the clergy did not grapple; they would ameliorate it, but did not seek to remove it.

  • By the law de provinciis ordinandis, he sought to regulate the provinces and ameliorate their administration.

  • Many physicians had exerted their utmost skill in endeavouring to ameliorate his condition.