Remedy

Quick meaning: Remedy is a noun meaning Something that corrects or counteracts.

Meaning

Something that corrects or counteracts.

More Meanings

1. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
2. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
3. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
4. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.

Example Sentences

Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,

Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.

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.

Word Forms

• remedies
• remedying
• remedied

Synonyms for remedy

Depending on context, synonyms include remeid, redress, help, correct, cure, rectify.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cure, curative, rectify, remediation, redress, amend.

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