remedy
/'remidi/
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Definition
Noun:
- A medicine or treatment for a disease or injury: A substance or method used to cure or relieve a health problem.
- A solution or means of correcting a problem: An action or method used to fix a fault, error, or undesirable situation.
Verb:
- To provide a cure or relief for something: To heal, alleviate, or make a bad situation better.
- To correct or rectify a fault or problem: To put right something that is wrong or deficient.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- Honey is a traditional remedy for a sore throat.
- The new law is intended as a remedy for social injustice.
Verb:
- This medicine should remedy your headache.
- We must remedy the mistakes in the report before submitting it.
Advanced Usage
"To seek a legal remedy": To pursue a solution or compensation through the court system.
- The company sought a legal remedy for the breach of contract.
"To be beyond remedy": To be impossible to fix or cure.
- The damage to the ancient manuscript was beyond remedy.
Variants and Related Words
Remedial (adj): Intended to correct or improve something.
- The student took remedial classes in math.
Remediation (n): The action of remedying something, especially environmental damage.
- The site required extensive remediation after the chemical spill.
Synonyms
- Noun: Cure, treatment, solution, antidote, fix.
- Verb: Cure, fix, correct, rectify, redress, repair.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(The word 'remedy' does not commonly form phrasal verbs. Its meaning is typically expressed directly.)
Related Idioms
- "The remedy is worse than the disease": The solution to a problem causes more harm than the problem itself.
- Raising taxes to fix the deficit? Sometimes the remedy is worse than the disease.
Noun
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
Verb
- provide relief for
- remedy his illness
- set straight or right
- remedy these deficiencies
- rectify the inequities in salaries
- repair an oversight