Dictionary Definition
remedy
Noun
1 act of correcting an error or a fault or an
evil [syn: redress,
remediation]
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
Translations
Something that corrects or counteracts
- German: Gegenmittel
- Hungarian: orvosság, ellenszer
- Italian: rimedio
- Kurdish: چارهسهر
- Portuguese: remédio
- Sindhi:
The legal means to recover a right or to prevent
or obtain redress for a wrong
- Hungarian: jogorvoslat
- Italian: azione giudiziaria
- Sindhi:
A medicine, application, or treatment that
relieves or cures a disease
- German: Heilmittel
- Hungarian: orvosság
- Italian: rimedio, medicamento
- Polish: lekarstwo
- Portuguese: remédio
- Sindhi:
Verb
- To provide or serve as a remedy for.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding
and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University
Press, 1973. § 27.
- Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding
and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University
Press, 1973. § 27.
Translations
To provide or serve as a remedy for
- Hungarian: orvosol
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: remediar
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Remedy may refer to:
Music
- Remedy (David Crowder Band album), an album by the Christian worship group David Crowder Band
- Remedy (album), an album by British house duo Basement Jaxx
- Remedy (rapper), an American rapper affiliated with the Wu-Tang Clan
- Remedy (band), a band formed by Yes guitarist Steve Howe as an outlet for solo recordings
- "Remedy" (song), a song by the band Seether from their album Karma and Effect
- "Remedy" (Cold song), a song by the band Cold from their album Year of the Spider
- "Remedy" (The Black Crowes song), a song by the Black Crowes that reached No.1 on Billboards Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart in 1992
- "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)", a song by Jason Mraz from the album Waiting For My Rocket To Come
- Remedy Records, a record label
Medical
- Home remedy, a practical cure or treatment for a medical condition that one does at home
- Homeopathic remedy, treatment for a medical condition of the sick, that employs weak diluted agents known to produce the symptoms of the disease in those who are healthy
Other
- Judicial remedy, an action taken by a court of law to enforce a right, impose a penalty, or make some other court order in order to resolve a dispute
- Remedy Corporation, a company that produces the Action Request System software toolset. Now the Service Management Business Unit of BMC Software
- Remedy Entertainment, a Finnish software company that produces the Max Payne series of video games
- Remedy UK, a pressure (lobby) group representing junior doctors in the UK
- Dog Remedy, a company that offers behavior modification training and supplies for dogs
remedy in German: Remedy
remedy in French: Remède
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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