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rem⋅e⋅dy

  [rem-i-dee] noun, plural -dies, verb, -died, -dy⋅ing.
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–noun
1. something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
2. something that corrects or removes an evil of any kind.
3. Law. legal redress; the legal means of enforcing a right or redressing a wrong.
4. Coining. a certain allowance at the mint for deviation from the standard weight and fineness of coins; tolerance.
–verb (used with object)
5. to cure, relieve, or heal.
6. to restore to the natural or proper condition; put right: to remedy a matter.
7. to counteract or remove: to remedy an evil.
Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME remedie < AF < L remedium, equiv. to re- re- + med(ērī) to heal, assuage, remedy (cf. medical ) + -ium -ium; (v.) late ME remedien (< MF remedier) < L remediāre, deriv. of remedium

Synonyms:
1. cure, restorative, specific, medicament, medication. 2. corrective, antidote. 5. See cure. 6. repair, correct, redress, renew.

Antonyms:
5. worsen.
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rem·e·dy   (rěm'ĭ-dē)   
n.   pl. rem·e·dies
  1. Something, such as medicine or therapy, that relieves pain, cures disease, or corrects a disorder.
  2. Something that corrects an evil, fault, or error.
  3. Law A legal order of preventing or redressing a wrong or enforcing a right.
  4. The allowance by a mint for deviation from the standard weight or quality of coins.
tr.v.   rem·e·died, rem·e·dy·ing, rem·e·dies
  1. To relieve or cure (a disease or disorder).
  2. To remove, counteract, or rectify. See Synonyms at correct, cure.

[Middle English remedie, from Old French, from Latin remedium : re-, re- + medērī, to heal; see med- in Indo-European roots.]
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Remedy

Rem"e*dy\ (r?m"?-d?), n.; 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.

Remedy

Rem"e*dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remedied (-d?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Remedying.] [L. remediare, remediari: cf. F. rem?dier. See Remedy, n.] 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.
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Language Translation for : Remedy
Spanish: remedio,
German: das Heilmittel,
Japanese: 治療
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remedy  (n.)
c.1225, from Anglo-Fr. remedie, O.Fr. remede, from L. remedium "a cure, remedy, medicine" from re-, intensive prefix (or perhaps lit., "again"), + mederi "to heal." The verb is attested from 1412.
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Main Entry: rem·e·dy
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -dies
: the means to enforce a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong : the relief (as damages, restitution, specific performance, or an injunction) that may be given or ordered by a court or other tribunal for a wrong remedy is to rescind and to put the parties in the position in which they were prior to the attempted agreement —First Nat'l Mortgage Corporation v. The Manhattan Life Insurance Company, 360 So. Second 264 (1978)> remedies> —rem·e·di·less adjective

Main Entry: remedy
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -died; -dy·ing
: to provide or serve as a remedy for
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Main Entry: rem·e·dy
Pronunciation: 'rem-&d-E
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -dies
: a medicine, application, ortreatment that relieves or cures a disease —remedy transitive verb -died; -dy·ing
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remedy rem·e·dy (rěm'ĭ-dē)
n.
Something, such as medicine or therapy, that relieves pain, cures disease, or corrects a disorder. v. rem·e·died, rem·e·dy·ing, rem·e·dies
To relieve or cure a disease or disorder.

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