remedy

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remedy (plural remedies)

1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

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• remediless

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to remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)

1. (transitive) 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,

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• redress
• help
• correct
• cure
• See also Wikisaurus:repair

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