Definition of "ameliorative" []

• Able to repair or ameliorate. (adjective)

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• "Hmm, not sure I want to live in a country where someone can undergo torture and then without receiving any kind of ameliorative mental treatment be considered competent to stand trial."
• "When they asked for some kind of ameliorative measures, we gave them none."
• "But does it have to be so much so, or can some (different) public policy choices have an ameliorative effect?"