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remedy

noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈɹɛmədi/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Something that corrects or counteracts.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To provide or serve as a remedy for.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: redress, remediation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: correction, rectification

Narrower terms: salve

7

noun

Meaning 7

a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: curative, cure, therapeutic

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug

Narrower terms: acoustic, antidote, counterpoison, emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant, lenitive, lotion, application, magic bullet, ointment, unction, unguent, balm, salve, palliative, alleviant, alleviator, panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-all, preventive, preventative, prophylactic

8

verb

Meaning 8

provide relief for

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • remedy his illness

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: relieve

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: treat, care for

9

verb

Meaning 9

set straight or right

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • remedy these deficiencies
  • rectify the inequities in salaries
  • repair an oversight

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: rectify, remediate, repair, amend

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: correct, rectify, right

History

Etymology

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.

Across languages

Translations

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: prime — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Arabic: عِلَاج (ʕilāj) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Arabic: تِرْيَاق (tiryāq) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Asturian: remediu — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Azerbaijani: çarə — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Bashkir: сара (sara) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Bulgarian: мярка (mjarka) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Bulgarian: средство (sredstvo) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Catalan: remei — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Chinese Mandarin: 補救措施 /补救措施 (bǔjiù cuòshī) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Czech: náprava — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Dutch: remedie — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Esperanto: rimedo — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Finnish: lääke — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Finnish: parannuskeino — something that corrects or counteracts
  • French: remède — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Friulian: rimiedi — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Galician: remedio — something that corrects or counteracts
  • German: Gegenmittel — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Hebrew: מָזוֹר (mazór) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Hindi: उपाय (upāy) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Hindi: समाधान (samādhān) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Hungarian: orvosság — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Hungarian: ellenszer — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Irish: leigheas — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Italian: rimedio — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Kazakh: дауа (daua) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Central Kurdish: چارەسەر (çareser) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Latin: remedium — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Malay: pemulih — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Occitan: remèdi — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Persian: چاره (čâre) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Polish: remedium — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Portuguese: remédio — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Portuguese: correção — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Romanian: remediu — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Russian: сре́дство (srédstvo) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Scottish Gaelic: leasachadh — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Sindhi: ُتَدارُڪ (utadāruk) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Spanish: remedio — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Swedish: botemedel — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Tagalog: remedyo — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Ottoman Turkish: چاره (çare) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Ottoman Turkish: علاج (ʿilac) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Ottoman Turkish: درمان (derman) — something that corrects or counteracts
  • Bulgarian: обезщетение (obezštetenie) — legal means
  • Catalan: correcció — legal means
  • Catalan: correctiu — legal means
  • Chinese Mandarin: 補救方法 /补救方法 (bǔjiù fāngfǎ) — legal means
  • Czech: právní prostředky nápravy — legal means
  • Czech: korekce — legal means
  • Finnish: muutoksenhakukeino — legal means
  • French: recours — legal means
  • Galician: recurso — legal means
  • Hindi: विधिक उपचार (vidhik upcār) — legal means
  • Hungarian: jogorvoslat — legal means
  • Italian: azione giudiziaria — legal means
  • Malay: remedi — legal means
  • Occitan: recors — legal means
  • Portuguese: recurso — legal means
  • Russian: ме́ра (méra) — legal means
  • Russian: сре́дство (srédstvo) — legal means
  • Sindhi: ُتَدارُڪ (utadāruk) — legal means
  • Spanish: recurso — legal means
  • Swedish: gottgörelse — legal means
  • Swedish: kompensation — legal means
  • Arabic: تِرْيَاق (tiryāq) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Arabic: دْوا (dwa) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Asturian: remediu — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Azerbaijani: əlac — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Azerbaijani: dərman — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Azerbaijani: müalicə — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Bashkir: дауа (dawa) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Bengali: দাওয়াই (daōẇai) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Bengali: এলাজ (elaj) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Bulgarian: лекарство (lekarstvo) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Catalan: remei — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Chinese Mandarin: 治療 /治疗 (zhìliáo) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Chinese Mandarin: 療法 /疗法 (liáofǎ) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Czech: lék — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Czech: léčba — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Dutch: remedie — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Finnish: lääke — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Finnish: parannuskeino — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Finnish: hoito — medicine, application, or treatment
  • French: remède — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Galician: remedio — medicine, application, or treatment
  • German: Heilmittel — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Greek: γιατρικό (giatrikó) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Ancient Greek: ἴαμα (íama) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Ancient Greek: ἴασις (íasis) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Ancient Greek: ἄκος (ákos) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Haitian Creole: remèd — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Hebrew: מָזוֹר (mazór) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Hindi: औषध (auṣadh) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Hindi: उपचार (upcār) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Hungarian: orvosság — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Italian: rimedio — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Italian: medicamento — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Japanese: 療法 (ryōhō) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Kapampangan: kapaldanan — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Kapampangan: kepaldanan — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Kazakh: дауа (daua) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Kazakh: дәрі (därı) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Korean: 요약 (yoyak) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Latin: remedium — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Malay: pengubat — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Malay: rawatan — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Māori: rongoā — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Norman: r'miède — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Occitan: remèdi — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Old English: lācnung — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Persian: درمان (darmân) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Polish: lekarstwo — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Polish: lek — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Portuguese: remédio — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Romanian: remediu — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Russian: лека́рство (lekárstvo) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Russian: сре́дство (srédstvo) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Sanskrit: भेषज (bheṣaja) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Scottish Gaelic: leigheas — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Scottish Gaelic: cungaidh — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Scottish Gaelic: ìoc — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Sindhi: عِلاجُ (ʻilāju) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Spanish: remedio — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Spanish: mentolato — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Spanish: mentolátum — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Swedish: botemedel — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Tagalog: gamot — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Tagalog: medisina — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Tagalog: remedyo — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Tarifit: asafar — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Tocharian B: sāṃtke — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Turkish: tıp — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Ottoman Turkish: علاج (ʿilac) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Ottoman Turkish: چاره (çare) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Ottoman Turkish: درمان (derman) — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Walloon: riméde — medicine, application, or treatment
  • Asturian: remediar — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Bulgarian: лекувам (lekuvam) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Bulgarian: поправям (popravjam) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Catalan: remeiar — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Chinese Mandarin: 彌補 /弥补 (míbǔ) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Chinese Mandarin: 補救 /补救 (bǔjiù) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糾正 /纠正 (jiūzhèng) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Danish: afhjælpe — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Finnish: parantaa — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Finnish: korjata — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • French: remédier (à) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Galician: remediar — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • German: beheben — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Greek: γιατρεύω (giatrévo) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Ancient Greek: ἰάομαι (iáomai) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Hindi: उपाय करना (upāy karnā) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Hungarian: orvosol — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Italian: rimediare — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Italian: mettere una pezza — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Central Kurdish: چارەسەرکردن (çareserkirdin) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Latin: emendo — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Latin: medeor — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Norwegian Bokmål: avhjelpe — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: avhjelpe — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Occitan: remediar — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Persian: چاره کردن (čâre kardan) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Portuguese: remediar — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Spanish: remediar — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Swedish: lätta — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Swedish: avhjälpa — To provide or serve as a remedy for
  • Thai: เยียวยา (yiao-yaa) — To provide or serve as a remedy for
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