ameliorate

The judge said his segregation was ameliorated by him being allowed "some three hours per day out of his cell, which is more than twice the time allowed to convicted prisoners held in segregation".

The mandatory two-stop has been arrived at as a necessary evil - introducing an element of artificiality to ameliorate a specific problem.

"The things that survive and probably diversify will of course be the rats and the ragweed and the cockroaches ... unless some really concerted work is done to ameliorate some of the most extreme forces."

“The overall downward trend remains concerning, particularly if the threats are not ameliorated.”

Whatever contributed to the shallowness with which Wi’s character and others were written before is somewhat ameliorated in the second season.