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REMEDIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does remediate mean?
• REMEDIATE (verb)
The verb REMEDIATE has 1 sense:
1. set straight or right
Familiarity information: REMEDIATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they remediate ... he / she / it remediates
Past simple: remediated
Past participle: remediated
-ing form: remediating
... he / she / it remediates Past simple: remediated
Past participle: remediated
-ing form: remediating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Set straight or right
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
amend; rectify; remediate; remedy; repair
Context example:
repair an oversight
Hypernyms (to "remediate" is one way to...):
correct; rectify; right (make right or correct)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
remediation (act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil)
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