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remedy

ˈrɛmədi
WordNet
Below the image, two so-called remedies that could relieve the family from various health complaints are ironically touted.
Below the image, two so-called remedies that could relieve the family from various health complaints are ironically touted.
  1. (v) remedy
    provide relief for "remedy his illness"
  2. (v) remedy
    set straight or right "remedy these deficiencies","rectify the inequities in salaries","repair an oversight"
  3. (n) remedy
    act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
  4. (n) remedy
    a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Illustrations
A quack and a buffoon on a stage try to sell the people a remedy in a bottle. In the foreground a boy is selling lottery tickets. Part of a series of six humorous pictures, cartoons on politics, taxes and other social conditions in The Hague, c. 1845.
A quack and a buffoon on a stage try to sell the people a remedy in a bottle. In the foreground a boy is selling lottery tickets. Part of a series of six humorous pictures, cartoons on politics, taxes and other social conditions in The Hague, c. 1845.
Jason pours a remedy in the dragon's eyes. The drug puts the dragon asleep. Title in Latin in the bottom margin.
Jason pours a remedy in the dragon's eyes. The drug puts the dragon asleep. Title in Latin in the bottom margin.
Poster for remedy for head lice, etc. With an image of a bottle of Head Eau de Cologne and a head of a child or man.
Poster for remedy for head lice, etc. With an image of a bottle of Head Eau de Cologne and a head of a child or man.
Interior with a witch on the left who prepares a remedy at the table. There are devils at her table. In the background an old woman with a magic wand and a naked woman with a broomstick.
Interior with a witch on the left who prepares a remedy at the table. There are devils at her table. In the background an old woman with a magic wand and a naked woman with a broomstick.
12 copper coin weights with iron balance with copper scales and 7 remedy weights in wooden box, with label. 1 Guiny 8.25 g ½ Guiny 4.11 g 1 Ryder 9.95 g ½ Ryder 4.99 g 1 Ducat 6.99 g ½ Ducat 4.48 g 1 Ducaton 11.03 g ½ Ducaton 5.51 g 2 Pistol 13.46 g 1 Gun 6.70 g ½ Gun 3.34 g 4 Gun 26.91 g
12 copper coin weights with iron balance with copper scales and 7 remedy weights in wooden box, with label. 1 Guiny 8.25 g ½ Guiny 4.11 g 1 Ryder 9.95 g ½ Ryder 4.99 g 1 Ducat 6.99 g ½ Ducat 4.48 g 1 Ducaton 11.03 g ½ Ducaton 5.51 g 2 Pistol 13.46 g 1 Gun 6.70 g ½ Gun 3.34 g 4 Gun 26.91 g
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Beethoven used to take hay baths to remedy the swelling he used to get in his legs
  1. Remedy
    That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
  2. Remedy
    (Law) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
  3. Remedy
    To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract. "I will remedy this gear ere long."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The phrase "sleep tight" originated when mattresses were set upon ropes woven through the bed frame. To remedy sagging ropes, one would use a bed key to tighten the rope.
  1. (n) remedy
    That which cures a disease; any medicine or application or process which promotes restoration to health or alleviates the effects of disease: with for before the name of a disease.
  2. (n) remedy
    That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; relief; redress; reparation.
  3. (n) remedy
    In law, the means given for obtaining through a court of justice any right or compensation or redress for a wrong.
  4. (n) remedy
    In coining, a certain allowance at the mint for deviation from the standard weight and fineness of coins: same as allowance, 7.
  5. (n) remedy
    A course of action to bring about a certain result.
  6. (n) remedy
    Synonyms and Cure, restorative, specific, antidote, corrective.
  7. remedy
    To cure; heal: as, to remedy a disease.
  8. remedy
    To repair or remove something evil from; restore to a natural or proper condition.
  9. remedy
    To remove or counteract, as something evil; redress.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
Willow bark, which provides the salicylic acid from which aspirin was originally synthesized, has been used as a pain remedy ever since the Greeks discovered its therapeutic power nearly 2,500 years ago.
  1. (n) Remedy
    rem′e-di any medicine, appliance, or particular treatment that cures disease: that which counteracts any evil or repairs any loss—(obs.) Remēde′
  2. (v.t) Remedy
    to remove, counteract, or repair:—pa.t. and pa.p. rem′edied
Quotations
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Joseph Joubert
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Seneca
Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay
Source Unknown
Helen Keller
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
Guy Fawkes
A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
Guy Fawkes
There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.
Portuguese Proverb
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. remedium,; pref. re-, re- + mederi, to heal, to cure: cf. F. remède, remedy, remédier, to remedy. See Medical

Usage in the news

Homemade Remedy May Do The Trick. mix108.com

Don't buy into Romney's snake oil remedies. cortezjournal.com

Plus a farewell to Remedy Coffee. eastbayexpress.com

Unable to recoup remediation costs from developers or taxpayers, stormwater managers in the state that laid the groundwork for the Clean Water Act test the law's bottom line: Who pays. pwmag.com

NF is a 54-year-old man who visits your pharmacy to inquire about a remedy to help with daytime fatigue. pharmacytimes.com

A long-time herbal remedy known for its soothing qualities is being studied as a serious solution for anxiety. abclocal.go.com

When menopause is the cause, who wouldn't be up for trying a natural remedy to cool down. eatingwell.com

Our Lady of Remedy (Kandivali, India). roanoke.com

Our economic miseries will require more substantial, perhaps even more socialistic, remedies. villagevoice.com

We'll share symptoms and signs to home remedies and medical care. parents.com

Legend says its boiled roots were used as a headache remedy. dallasnews.com

Motor oil never a remedy for mange . alexcityoutlook.com

Fayette County commissioners on April 12 approved a bid to remediate the problem. thecitizennews.com

A Natural Remedy for Motion Sickness . motherearthnews.com

Alternative remedies gain acceptance despite lack of evidence. msnbc.msn.com

Usage in scientific papers

But fortunately, for quantum communication the remedy is easy, it suffices to use a source with a coherence time larger than the largest delay δτ .
Quantum Cryptography

As a remedy he showed a transformation of the radial coordinate r inside the star, which removes this instability and yields stable evolutions for any chosen numerical resolution19 .
Numerical Relativity CM1-a and CM1-b sessions

Various deficiencies of the model are pointed out and various remedies and generalizations are presented and discussed.
The disc instability model of dwarf-novae and low-mass X-ray binary transients

Later we will see that one can find remedies for the second problem.
The disc instability model of dwarf-novae and low-mass X-ray binary transients

It is clear that a simple rescaling can remedy this discrepancy.
The causal structure of microlocalized Einstein metrics

Usage in literature

There are endless ways in which my remedies may be administered, since they are merely concentrated cell-food. "Valere Aude" by Louis Dechmann

And his remedy is to give vigour to the higher, rather than to struggle with the lower. "Sermons Preached at Brighton" by Frederick W. Robertson

A good all-around colic remedy will be found in Pratts Veterinary Colic Remedy. "Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry" by Pratt Food Co.

I see no remedy to our evils, but an open course of law. "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson

I do not express my sense of our misfortunes from any idea that they are remediable. "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson

Do, I pray you, think of a remedy for the future. "A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II" by William Sleeman

If, however, this should be the case, a little putty or pitch will remedy the difficulty. "Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making" by William Hamilton Gibson

For it there is a remedy; that remedy is now at hand. "The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States" by Martin R. Delany

I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. "Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891" by Various

She might be seen giving a warm bath to a sick child, or waiting and watching the effect of other remedies. "The Women of the Arabs" by Henry Harris Jessup

Usage in poetry
Without a part left over,
Not a toe, not a finger, and used,
Used utterly, in the sun's conflagration, the stains
That lengthen from ancient cathedrals
What is the remedy?
I remember
The dead smell of sun on wood cabins,
The stiffness of sails, the long salt winding sheets.
Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?
Once one has been seized up
Who longs to remedy these human ills,
Feeling God made of one blood all the earth;
Whose sympathies have passed his native hills,
And spread beyond the clan that gave him birth.
CLOTALDO. Reasons fail me not to show
That the experiment may not answer;
But there is no remedy now,
For a sign from the apartment
Tells me that he hath awoken
And even hitherward advances.
Should you hold your life dear,
Then the remedy's clear,
If you're offered some yeast - don't eat it!
Turn the offer down flat-
Don your travelling hat-
Put an egg in your boot - and beat it!
Homer: I sang to maidens in my prime; again
(But not before the morrow) will I sing:
Let me repose this noontide, since in sooth
Wine, a sweet remedy for weariness,
Helps to uplift its burden.