remedy

remedy

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of remedy in English

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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.
  2. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
  4. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Synonyms

  • (Scottish contexts): remeid

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)

  1. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.

Synonyms

  • redress
  • help
  • correct
  • cure
  • See also Thesaurus:repair

Translations

Related terms

  • remediable
  • remedial

Further reading

  • “remedy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “remedy”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “remedy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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