Remedy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Something, such as medicine or therapy, that relieves pain, cures disease, or corrects a disorder.
  • n. Something that corrects an evil, fault, or error.
  • n. Law A legal order of preventing or redressing a wrong or enforcing a right.
  • n. The allowance by a mint for deviation from the standard weight or quality of coins.
  • v. To relieve or cure (a disease or disorder).
  • v. To remove, counteract, or rectify. See Synonyms at correct, cure.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Something that corrects or counteracts.
  • n. The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  • n. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
  • v. To provide or serve as a remedy for.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for.
  • n. That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
  • n. The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
  • v. To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That which cures a disease; any medicine or application or process which promotes restoration to health or alleviates the effects of disease: with for before the name of a disease.
  • n. That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; relief; redress; reparation.
  • n. In law, the means given for obtaining through a court of justice any right or compensation or redress for a wrong.
  • n. In coining, a certain allowance at the mint for deviation from the standard weight and fineness of coins: same as allowance, 7.
  • n. A course of action to bring about a certain result.
  • n. Synonyms and Cure, restorative, specific, antidote, corrective.
  • To cure; heal: as, to remedy a disease.
  • To repair or remove something evil from; restore to a natural or proper condition.
  • To remove or counteract, as something evil; redress.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. provide relief for
  • n. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
  • v. set straight or right
  • n. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
  • Verb Form
    remedied    remedies    remedying   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    care for    treat    correct    rectify    right   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    remedied    remedying    remediless   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    help    reparation    assistance    counteraction    aid    redress    restorative    cure    relief    corrective   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cure    medicine    treatment    precaution    explanation    punishment    measure    provision    reform    resource