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adj. made better; improved

v. Simple past tense and past participle of meliorate.

"Thus, the cronyism, nepotism, inefficiency and fraud inherent in democracy is largely meliorated by law and political mechanisms in America and Europe, but in Asia those remedies are still developing."

meliorated    meliorates    meliorating   

ameliorate   

meliorated    meliorating    meliorative    meliorable    meliorator   

improve    ameliorate    soften