remedy
Plural: remedies
Noun
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Verb
Verb Forms: remedied, remedying, remedies
- To set right, cure, or provide a solution for.
- set straight or right
- "remedy these deficiencies"
- provide relief for
- "remedy his illness"
- To provide or serve as a remedy for.
Examples
- He needed to REMEDY his low score quickly with a bonus word.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
Synonyms
amend, curative, cure, rectify, redress, relieve, remediate, remediation, repair, therapeutic, correct, help, remeid
Scrabble Score: 12
remedy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordremedy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
remedy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary