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remedy
[ rem-i-dee ]
noun
- something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
Synonyms: medication, medicament, specific, restorative, cure
- something that corrects or removes an evil of any kind.
Synonyms: antidote, corrective
- Law. legal redress; the legal means of enforcing a right or redressing a wrong.
- Coining. a certain allowance at the mint for deviation from the standard weight and fineness of coins; tolerance.
remedy
/ rɪˈmiːdɪəbəl; ˈrɛmɪdɪ /
noun
- usually foll byfor or against any drug or agent that cures a disease or controls its symptoms
- usually foll byfor or against anything that serves to put a fault to rights, cure defects, improve conditions, etc
a remedy for industrial disputes
- the legally permitted variation from the standard weight or quality of coins; tolerance
verb
- to relieve or cure (a disease, illness, etc) by or as if by a remedy
- to put to rights (a fault, error, etc); correct
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Derived Forms
- reˈmediably, adverb
- remediable, adjective
- ˈremediless, adjective
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Other Words From
- non·reme·dy noun plural nonremedies
- un·reme·died adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of remedy1
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Example Sentences
Be There, Be Present, from filmmaker Greg Dennis, follows photographer Nick Pumphrey, who, in search of a remedy for the stress, turned to the place he feels most at home—the sea.
In all of my years of dabbling in herbal remedies, I had never experienced the level of impact and efficacy that I did once I got into a daily routine of ingesting the appropriate herbs for my needs.
Thanks to the influx of funding in the last few years, researchers around the world are trying all sorts of unconventional approaches to snakebite remedies.
Passing a law that invalidates any portion of an NDA that silences an individual speaking out about workplace discrimination or sexual harassment is one remedy.
After decades doubling as a human blood buffet and trying every remedy under the sun to prevent bites and treat them, it seemed too good to be true.
The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
Coca-Cola was a wildly popular drink and hangover remedy because, well, it contained cocaine.
The tradition has lasted ever since, being seen as a great natural hangover remedy throughout the world.
Despite the financial remedy, partial repeal of the screen quota has imperiled the domestic market.
After such an indictment, you would expect the department to do all it could to remedy such failings.
A present remedy of all is the speedy coming of a cloud, and a dew that meeteth it, by the heat that cometh, shall overpower it.
They wanted Papa and Mamma, gone to Bombay beyond the seas, and their grief while it lasted was without remedy.
There could be no social remedy for poverty except the almost impossible remedy of the limitation of life itself.
Nature, ever buoyant and imperative, does her best to remedy the ills created by "Man's inhumanity to Man."
Consequently everything is at a standstill, until God shall remedy it.
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