Remedy

Noun

 * 1) Something that corrects or counteracts.
 * 2)  The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
 * 3) A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

Verb

 * 1)  To provide or serve as a remedy for.

Adjectives for Remedy
worthless; potent; favorite; time-tested; present; similar; valuable; misbranded; fraudulent; mythical; accepted; manifold (pi); rational; insidious; infallible; palliative; celebrated; universal; unavailing; irrational; precious; radical; ancient; drug; original; effective; fruitless; costly; extreme; innocent; heroic; futile; makeshift.

Verbs for Remedy
advocate—; apply—; concoct—; denounce—; employ—; furnish—; grope for—; hail—; persevere with—; prescribe—; propose—; provide—; recommend—; rely upon—.

Adverbs for Remedy
concurrently; similarly; rationally; fraudulently; traditionally; heroically; medically; beneficially; miraculously.

Thesaurus
mitigation, mollification, neutralizer, nostrum, nullifier, numbing, nurse, office, offices, offset, operate on, overhaul, overhauling, palliation, panacea, pay reparations, pharmaceutical, pharmacon, physic, plaster, poultice, prescribe, prescription, preventative, preventive, proffer aid, prophylactic, protect, protection, pull round, purge, put right, put straight, put to rights, rally, reclaim, recompense, rectification, rectify, recure, redeem, redress, reduction, reform, relief, relieve, remunerate, render assistance, repair, repairing, reparation, requite, rescue, restorative, restore, restore to health, resuscitate, revive, right, rub, salving, satisfaction, save, service, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, softening, solution, soothe, soothing, specific, splint, straighten out, strap, subduement, succor, support, take in tow, therapy, treat, treatment, troubleshooting, work a cure, abatement, abet, aid, allayment, alleviate, alleviation, ameliorate, amend, amends, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, answer, antacid, antidote, appeasement, assist, assistance, assuagement, avail, bail out, bandage, bathe, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, bring around, bring round, buffer, care for, comfort, compensate, compensation, control, correct, correction, corrective, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, counterirritant, countermeasure, counterstep, cure, cure-all, curing, deadening, diagnose, diminishment, diminution, do good, doctor, drug, dulling, ease, easement, easing, elixir, emend, favor, fixing, flux, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give care to, give help, give satisfaction, good offices, heal, healing, help, improve, lend a hand, lend one aid, lessening, lulling, make all square, make good, make right, making right, massage, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicine, mend, mending, minister to, ministration, ministry, mitigate,

Etymology
From remedie: <  *undefined:, remede: <  remedium: < re-: + mederi:.

Derived terms

 * remediless

Synonyms

 * redress
 * help
 * correct
 * cure
 * See also Thesaurus:repair

Related terms

 * remediable
 * remedial

Noun

 * Catalan: remei
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, parannuskeino
 * German: Gegenmittel
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese:, correção
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Sindhi:


 * Catalan: correcció, correctiu
 * Finnish: muutoksenhakukeino
 * Hungarian: jogorvoslat


 * Italian: azione giudiziaria
 * Sindhi:


 * Catalan: remei
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, parannuskeino,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: γιατρικό


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Sindhi:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * Catalan: remeiar
 * Danish: afhjælpe
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: emendo, medeor
 * Portuguese: