REMEDYING Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in corrective

serving to raise or adjust something to some standard or proper condition I've given the engine a remedying tune-up that should put an end to that knocking

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verb

present participle of remedy

as in healing

to bring about recovery from a little extra studying should remedy your poor performance in history thus far this year

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as in amending

to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from needed to wear glasses to remedy her bad vision

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Recent Examples of remedying

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Presuming that sons are already less social is not a recipe for remedying this bias. —

Lise Eliot, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026 How to refill a saline lake Growing the lake is a much bigger and more expensive challenge than remedying the salinity problem. —

Evan Bush, NBC news, 7 Mar. 2026 There is a dearth of curries in New York—something chef Vijay Kumar, of Dhamaka, Adda, and Semma, has been steadily remedying in recent years. —

Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 21 Feb. 2026 The city invested a $125 million grant package to aid in remedying flood concerns in June. —

Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Feb. 2026 On Thursday, Democratic lawmakers met in the Capitol to denounce Uthmeier and his opinion and say that Uthmeier was ignoring the difference between remedying harm and creating advantage. —

Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2026 If the issue has caused a legal nuisance, meaning there is a risk of significant harm to your home, a judge could order the other home owner to cover costs of remedying the issue. —

Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 13 Jan. 2026 Following its own experts’ recommendations to build the capital markets union, the banking union, and common borrowing tools, including a sustainable defense financing mechanism, can go a long way to remedying this situation. —

Douglas Rediker, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2025 The removal allows the bank to grow its balance sheet again, rather than focusing all its efforts on remedying past regulatory mistakes that predate Scharf’s tenure. —

Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for remedying

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For many, a no-phone vacation is less an indulgence than a corrective.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2026
Former Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, one of the co-authors, has portrayed the act as a corrective to the moral failure of refusing entry to many Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.

— Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026