remedy
Meaning
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- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Synonyms
rectify
medical treatment
set right
tend to
set to rights
be of use
do good to
relief measure
remedial measure
therapeutic medication
be curable
have a treatment
means of counteracting
take steps against
care delivery
medicinal agent
make up recover
counter balance
counter-measure
enhance
legal remedy
make up for
medicinal drug
pharmaceutical product
Frequency
Hyphenated as
rem‧e‧dy
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹɛmədi/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
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