remedy

Meanings

Noun

• Something that corrects or counteracts.
• The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
• A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
• The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Verb

• To provide or serve as a remedy for.

Related

Similar words

• remeid
• redress
• help
• correct
• cure

Origin

• From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium ("a remedy, cure"), from re- + mederi.