distill vs meliorate

distill and meliorate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
distill	No	No	Yes	No
meliorate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, meliorate is a hypernym of distill; that is, meliorate is a word with a broader meaning than distill:

distill: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
meliorate: to make better

Other hypernyms of distill include ameliorate, amend, better, improve.

distill (verb)	meliorate (verb)
give off (a liquid)	get better
undergo the process of distillation	to make better
extract by the process of distillation
remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation
undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops