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ameliorating
noun as in mending
Example Sentences
On the left, many see it as a civil rights issue–potentially ameliorating the problem of intractable poverty.
Jerram considers the place of the modern city both in ameliorating and manipulating the lives of its inhabitants.
All this was but an incident, to be sure, in the minister's general scheme for "ameliorating the revenue."
In every region of life its ameliorating influence was felt.
How many original ideas, how many sublime thoughts, how many means of ameliorating the woes of the Philippines!
Thus he found himself engaged in ameliorating the lot of the Connaught peasants.
And as soon as the chance came, she told him this, indirectly, and with many a friendly ameliorating glance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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