 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
remedy
noun
1: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: {redress},
{remediation}]
2: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[syn: {curative}, {cure}]
verb
1: set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify
the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" [syn:
{rectify}, {remediate}, {repair}, {amend}]
2: provide relief for; "remedy his illness" [syn: {relieve}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Remedy \Rem"e*dy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Remedied} (-d?d); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Remedying}.] [L. remediare, remediari: cf. F.
rem['e]dier. See {Remedy}, noun]
To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to
repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.
I will remedy this gear ere long. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Remedy \Rem"e*dy\ (r?m"?-d?), noun; pl. {Remedies} (-d?z). [L.
remedium; pref. re- re- + mederi to heal, to cure: cf. F.
rem['e]de remedy, rem['e]dier to remedy. See {Medical}.]
1. That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or
application which puts an end to disease and restores
health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
2. That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a
corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed
by for or against, formerly by to.
What may else be remedy or cure
To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought,
He will instruct us. --Milton.
3. (Law) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain
redress for a wrong.
{Civil remedy}. See under {Civil}.
{Remedy of the mint} (Coinage), a small allowed deviation
from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called
also {tolerance}.
Syn: Cure; restorative; counteraction; reparation; redress;
relief; aid; help; assistance.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
177 Moby Thesaurus words for "remedy":
abatement, abet, aid, allayment, alleviate, alleviation,
ameliorate, amend, amends, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing,
answer, antacid, antidote, appeasement, assist, assistance,
assuagement, avail, bail out, bandage, bathe, bear a hand,
befriend, benefit, bring around, bring round, buffer, care for,
comfort, compensate, compensation, control, correct, correction,
corrective, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent,
counterirritant, countermeasure, counterstep, cure, cure-all,
curing, deadening, diagnose, diminishment, diminution, do good,
doctor, drug, dulling, ease, easement, easing, elixir, emend,
favor, fixing, flux, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift,
give care to, give help, give satisfaction, good offices, heal,
healing, help, improve, lend a hand, lend one aid, lessening,
lulling, make all square, make good, make right, making right,
massage, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicine, mend,
mending, minister to, ministration, ministry, mitigate, mitigation,
mollification, neutralizer, nostrum, nullifier, numbing, nurse,
office, offices, offset, operate on, overhaul, overhauling,
palliation, panacea, pay reparations, pharmaceutical, pharmacon,
physic, plaster, poultice, prescribe, prescription, preventative,
preventive, proffer aid, prophylactic, protect, protection,
pull round, purge, put right, put straight, put to rights, rally,
reclaim, recompense, rectification, rectify, recure, redeem,
redress, reduction, reform, relief, relieve, remunerate,
render assistance, repair, repairing, reparation, requite, rescue,
restorative, restore, restore to health, resuscitate, revive,
right, rub, salving, satisfaction, save, service, set right,
set straight, set to rights, set up, softening, solution, soothe,
soothing, specific, splint, straighten out, strap, subduement,
succor, support, take in tow, therapy, treat, treatment,
troubleshooting, work a cure
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