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Remedying

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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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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: remedy
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -died; -dy·ing
: to provide or serve as a remedy for
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

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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