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Amelioration
may refer to one of the following.
amelioration
(health) means "to make better" or "to improve upon" most often in context of or in reference to ill health of a person but could also be in reference to healing the land, plant, tree, etc.
Land amelioration
(
land improvement
)
Amelioration (semantic)
is a form of
semantic change
, the introduction of positive connotations or removal of negative ones for a word or expression.
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