REMEDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remedy mean? 

• REMEDY (noun)
  The noun REMEDY has 2 senses:

1. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

2. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

  Familiarity information: REMEDY used as a noun is rare.

• REMEDY (verb)
  The verb REMEDY has 2 senses:

1. set straight or right

2. provide relief for

  Familiarity information: REMEDY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMEDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

redress; remediation; remedy

Hypernyms ("remedy" is a kind of...):

correction; rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remedy"):

salve (anything that remedies or heals or soothes)

Derivation:

remedial (tending or intended to rectify or improve)

remedy (set straight or right)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic

Hypernyms ("remedy" is a kind of...):

medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remedy"):

acoustic (a remedy for hearing loss or deafness)

antidote; counterpoison (a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison)

emetic; nauseant; vomit; vomitive (a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting)

lenitive (remedy that eases pain and discomfort)

application; lotion (liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin)

magic bullet (a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease)

balm; ointment; salve; unction; unguent (semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation)

alleviant; alleviator; palliative (remedy that alleviates pain without curing)

catholicon; cure-all; nostrum; panacea (hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists)

preventative; preventive; prophylactic (remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease)

Holonyms ("remedy" is a part of...):

intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))

Derivation:

remedial (tending to cure or restore to health)

remedy (provide relief for)

• REMEDY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they remedy    ... he / she / it remedies   
Past simple: remedied   
Past participle: remedied   
-ing form: remedying   

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 "remedy" is one way to...):

correct; rectify; right (make right or correct)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

remedy (act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide relief for

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

relieve; remedy

Context example:

remedy his illness

Hypernyms (to "remedy" is one way to...):

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

remedy (a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain)

 Context examples 

Serving or tending to restore health; a remedy.

(Cure, NCI Thesaurus)

And the only remedy they found was, to set him to hard work, after which he would infallibly come to himself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To remedy this, he ate as fast as they; and, so greatly did hunger compel him, he was not above taking what did not belong to him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated.

(Homeopathy, NCI Thesaurus)

The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the centre of the schoolroom, and oblige them to stand there till the sermon was finished.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny was silent; but not from being convinced that there might not be a remedy found for some of these evils.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I asked myself; and then, with another bound of terror—how was it to be remedied?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He called it, therefore, his duty to step forward, and endeavour to remedy an evil which had been brought on by himself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

According to these beliefs, in order for a remedy to be effective, it must cause in a healthy person the same symptoms being treated in the patient.

(Homeopathic medicine, NCI Dictionary)

“I fear it is too deep a case for such simple remedies,” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)