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remedy (noun)
1.
a medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease
2.
something that corrects or counteracts
3.
the legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong
remedy (verb)
transitive verb
to provide or serve as a remedy for - relieve remedy a social evil correct
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
remedy (noun)
1.
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
SYNONYMS:
cure, drug, medicament, medication, medicinal, pharmaceutical, physic, remedy, specific
RELATED WORDS:
cure-all, nostrum, panacea; botanical, patent medicine, prescription, prescription drug; cordial, potion, tonic; miracle drug, wonder drug; cap, capsule, pill, tablet; injection, shot; embrocation, liniment, lotion, ointment, potion, poultice, salve; syrup ( sirup), tincture; antibiotic, antiseptic, serum; cathartic, purgative
remedy (noun)
2.
something that corrects or counteracts something undesirable
SYNONYMS:
antidote, corrective, curative, rectifier, remedy, therapeutic, therapy
RELATED WORDS:
cure-all, elixir, panacea; answer, solution; aid, help, relief, succor; balm, medicinal, medicine, palliative
remedy (verb)
1.
to bring about recovery from
SYNONYMS:
heal, mend, remedy
RELATED WORDS:
allay, alleviate, assuage, relieve; palliate, salve, soothe; ease, lighten, moderate, temper; doctor, nurse; medicate, treat; diagnose
NEAR ANTONYMS:
aggravate, worsen; misdiagnose, overdiagnose, underdiagnose
remedy (verb)
2.
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
SYNONYMS:
amend, debug, emend, rectify, red-pencil, reform, remedy
RELATED WORDS:
redraft, redraw, restyle, revise, rework, rewrite; blue-pencil, cut, shorten; redress, right; ameliorate, better, improve; perfect, polish, touch up; fix, mend, repair; adjust, modulate, regulate; alter, change, modify
NEAR ANTONYMS:
damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil; aggravate, worsen
Remedy (Wikipedia)

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Remedy (Wiktionary)

English

Etymology

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (a remedy, cure), from re- (again) + mederi (to heal). Doublet of remeid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹɛmədi/
  • Hyphenation: rem‧e‧dy

Noun

remedy (plural remedies)

  1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
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treatment, cure, solution, relief, therapy
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