remedy

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   provide relief for

   I need a remedy for this headache.

2. 2
   verb

   set straight or right

   remedy these deficiencies

3. 3
   noun

   A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

   Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.

4. 4
   verb

   To provide or serve as a remedy for.

   Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,

5. 5
   noun

   act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

6. 6
   noun

   a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

7. 7
   noun

   Something that corrects or counteracts.

8. 8
   noun

   The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

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.