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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : rem-i-dee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛm ɪ di |
Definition of remedy
Origin :- c.1200, "cure for a disease or disorder; means of counteracting an evil," from Anglo-French remedie, Old French remede "remedy, cure" (12c., Modern French remède) and directly from Latin remedium "a cure, remedy, medicine, antidote, that which restores health," from re-, intensive prefix (or perhaps literally, "again;" see re-), + mederi "to heal" (see medical (adj.)). Figurative use from c.1300.
- noun cure, solution
- verb fix, cure
- The remedy, however, to my mind, is obvious and suggests itself.
- Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
- It is the crisis which makes the pressure, and not the laws which provide a remedy for it.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- To consider these evils, to find their remedy, is the most sore necessity of our times.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- It was as if she found in sheer activity and fatigue a remedy for her uneasiness.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- You laugh at my prescriptions, and refuse to take the remedy which I ordered.
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- There is no other remedy than this which I have brought thee.
- Extract from : « The Man of Adamant » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- And are not my sister's tears a reason, sir, when I cannot remedy their cause?
- Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
- And, further, when I had a chance to learn my remedy for myself, you destroyed it.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- If you had not the remedy--this what-you-call--pilocarpin, what would you do?
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- The loss of poor Bill made us all sad; but there was no remedy.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
Synonyms for remedy
- aid
- alleviate
- ameliorate
- amend
- antidote
- assistance
- assuage
- attend
- biologic
- change
- clean up
- clean up one's act
- control
- correct
- corrective
- counteractant
- counteraction
- counteractive
- counteragent
- countermeasure
- counterstep
- cure-all
- debug
- doctor
- drug
- ease
- elixir
- fiddle with
- fix
- fix up
- go over
- heal
- help
- improvement
- launder
- make up for
- medicament
- medicant
- medicine
- mitigate
- palliate
- panacea
- pharmaceutical
- pharmacon
- physic
- pick up
- pill
- put right
- quick fix
- recalibrate
- rectify
- redress
- reform
- relief
- relieve
- renew
- repair
- restorative
- restore
- revise
- right
- scrub
- set right
- set to rights
- shape up
- solve
- soothe
- square
- square up
- straighten out
- support
- therapy
- treat
- treatment
- upgrade
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