Definition

1. 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.

2. 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

1. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
2. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Verb

1. provide relief for
   • remedy his illness
2. set straight or right
   • remedy these deficiencies
   • rectify the inequities in salaries
   • repair an oversight