Definitions for remedy

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remedy rem·e·dy

Spelling: [rem-i-dee]

IPA: /ˈrɛm ɪ di/

Remedy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in remedy (deemry).

Definitions for remedy

noun

1. something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
2. something that corrects or removes an evil of any kind.
3. Law. legal redress; the legal means of enforcing a right or redressing a wrong.
4. Coining. a certain allowance at the mint for deviation from the standard weight and fineness of coins; tolerance.

verb (used with object)

1. to cure, relieve, or heal.
2. to restore to the natural or proper condition; put right:
3. to counteract or remove:

Origin of remedy

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English remedie Anglo-French Latin remedium, equivalent to re- re- + med(ērī) to heal, assuage, remedy (cf. medical

Examples for remedy

Ullom had failed to summon help and had instead sought to remedy the situation by injecting her twice with cocaine.

After such an indictment, you would expect the department to do all it could to remedy such failings.

It was as if she found in sheer activity and fatigue a remedy for her uneasiness.

I tried a half-dozen other representatives, none who could remedy the blunder, all who cited different reasons for the occurrence.

The remedy, however, to my mind, is obvious and suggests itself.

It is the crisis which makes the pressure, and not the laws which provide a remedy for it.

To consider these evils, to find their remedy, is the most sore necessity of our times.

remedy and Microsoft have teamed up to make a story that spans both the game itself and an accompanying live-action TV show.

You laugh at my prescriptions, and refuse to take the remedy which I ordered.

The FDA is hoping to remedy the dearth of knowledge with a plea aimed at influential drugmakers.