remedy
remedy Lexical Profile
remedy Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A medicine, therapy, or medical treatment that relieves pain or cures an illness or injury.
"Warm honey and lemon tea is a traditional home remedy for soothing a sore throat."
A means of counteracting, correcting, or eliminating an undesirable situation, problem, or fault.
"Improved public transit was proposed as a practical remedy for severe urban traffic congestion."
The legal means of enforcing a right or redressing, compensating, or preventing a wrong through a court of law.
"When negotiations failed, the homeowner sought a legal remedy for the breach of contract."
• verb
To set right, rectify, or correct an undesirable situation, deficiency, or error.
"The software engineering team worked overnight to remedy the security vulnerability before launch."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French remede, from Latin remedium ('that which heals again'), formed from the intensive prefix re- and mederi ('to heal or cure'), sharing the same root as 'medicine'.