Definition of remedy
remedies
1 : a medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease
2 : something that corrects or counteracts
3 : the legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong
remediless
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Examples of remedy in a Sentence
Building more roads isn't always the best remedy for traffic congestion.
The problem was beyond remedy.
She was left without remedy since the court did not recognize her claim.
Recent Examples of remedy from the Web
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Sephora began carrying the product the following year, and a SuperMud mask for problem skin, created in 2013 after American Idol contestants asked for pimple remedies, is still one of the company’s top-selling facial masks.
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Obama then rattled off a series of relativist, on-the-one-hand and on-the-other-hand, split-the-difference remedies to the current tensions with radical Islamism (all couched in vague euphemisms).
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One remedy for the sporadic adjustments of your camera is to put it at ease.
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Much of the stories and features in the Farmers' Almanac tout natural remedies, recycling ideas and suggestions on how to stop wasting food — things that folks buying almanacs two centuries ago wanted to read too.
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As with a lot of Californians, his skin had that singular glow that suggested a proclivity for popular antiaging remedies.
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In the eyes of Google competitors, any remedy will have to improve on proposals that were part of a previous settlement negotiated with Vestager's predecessor.
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Humans have used marijuana, or Cannabis sativa, for thousands of years, for religious purposes, medicinal remedies or simply getting high.
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But as is the case with most things, Rihanna seems to be the remedy.
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Origin and Etymology of remedy
Middle English remedie, from Anglo-French, from Latin remedium, from re- + mederi to heal — more at medical
remedy
Definition of remedy
remedied
;remedying
transitive verb
: to provide or serve as a remedy for : relieve remedy a social evil
Examples of remedy in a Sentence
Something must be done to remedy the problem.
The conflict can be remedied by scheduling the meeting for next week.
Recent Examples of remedy from the Web
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The Trump commission is the fourth blue-ribbon inquiry in the last 17 years into what went wrong in a general election and how to remedy those problems.
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The hack was detected the afternoon of June 25, and the website was taken offline as the county worked with its site host to remedy the security breach; the site was running normally by 9:45 a.m. the next day.
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Eventually, Cincinnati cops began to tackle hot spots—not through sweeps but by removing or remedying the conditions that facilitated crime.
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ADA standardization has attempted to remedy the situation.
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The club has reportedly signed former Rapids forward Deshorn Brown from the Tampa Bay Rowdies to remedy the problem.
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In order to remedy the conduct, Pruitt-Adams asked Rouse to participate in Title IX training by Jan. 9, 2017, and meet with her within one week after completing the training.
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An exception to the policy are payments that directly remedy the harm addressed in the settlement, including harm to the environment or from official corruption, according to the memo.
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In California, minority-majority districts are turning into the go-to remedy for at-large elections that have worked against the political aspirations of minority communities.
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First Known Use of remedy
15th century
Synonym Discussion of remedy
REMEDY Defined for English Language Learners
remedy
playDefinition of remedy for English Language Learners
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: a medicine or treatment that relieves pain or cures a usually minor illness
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: a way of solving or correcting a problem
remedy
Definition of remedy for English Language Learners
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: to solve, correct, or improve (something)
REMEDY Defined for Kids
Definition of remedy for Students
remedies
1 : a medicine or treatment that cures or relieves
2 : something that corrects a problem
Definition of remedy for Students
remedied
;remedying
: to provide or serve as a cure or solution for An explanation remedied the confusion.
Medical Dictionary
remedy
playMedical Definition of remedy
remedies
: a medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease
remedy
transitive verbremedied
;remedying
Law Dictionary
remedy
Legal Definition of remedy
remedies
: the means to enforce a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong : the relief (as damages, restitution, specific performance, or an injunction) that may be given or ordered by a court or other tribunal for a wrong if the contract is null and void, the remedy is to rescind and to put the parties in the position in which they were prior to the attempted agreement — First Nat'l Mortgage Corp. v. The Manhattan Life Ins. Co., 360 So. 2d 264 (1978) specific performance and other equitable remedies
remediless
adjectiveremedy
Legal Definition of remedy
remedied
remedying
: to provide or serve as a remedy for
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