remedy

Meaning

Noun

1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. 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.
4. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Verb

To provide or serve as a remedy for.

Synonyms

cure

medicine

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heal

drug

💊

treatment

repair

redress

rectify

means

treat

medication

expedient

antidote

solution

remediate

correct

recover

care for

therapy

aid

amend

way

resource

restorative

healer

fix

mend

physician

help

medicament

agency

reparation

correction

recourse

expedience

avenue

relieve

therapeutic

set right

counteraction

remediation

medical treatment

prescription

put right

assist

pharmaceutical

care

make good

livelihood

doctor

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Translations

remède

remedio

médicament

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rimedio

remédio

💊

remei

genezen

remedie

curar

remédier

curar

helen

Heilmittel

φάρμακο

remediar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛmədi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: remedie

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.