ameliorating, ppl. a.
(əˈmiːlɪəˈreɪtɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Improving, making better.
| 1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 112 Sow oats after a fallow or some ameliorating crop. 1864 Gladstone in Daily Tel. 12 Oct., Any man who proposes an ameliorating law becomes..a sort of object of suspicion. |