Remedy
['remɪdɪ] or ['rɛmədi]
Definition
(noun.) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain.
(verb.) provide relief for; 'remedy his illness'.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
(n.) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
(n.) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cure, antidote, specific, restorative, help, medicine, corrective, counteractive.[2]. Reparation, redress, restoration.
v. a. [1]. Cure, heal, help.[2]. Repair, redress, restore.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cure, restorative, counteraction, reparation, redress, relief, help, specific
ANT:Evil, disease, hurt, infection, plague, ill, impairment, deterioration,aggravation, provocation
Typist: Preston
Definition
n. any medicine appliance or particular treatment that cures disease: that which counteracts any evil or repairs any loss—(obs.) Remēde′.—v.t. to remove counteract or repair:—pa.t. and pa.p. rem′edied.—adj. Remē′diable that may be remedied: curable.—n. Remē′diableness.—adv. Remē′diably.—adj. Remē′dial tending to remedy or remove.—adv. Remē′dially.—adjs. Remē′diāte (Shak.) remedial; Rem′ediless without remedy: incurable.—adv. Rem′edilessly.—n. Rem′edilessness.—p.adj. Rem′edying.
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Examples
- Fanny was silent; but not from being convinced that there might not be a remedy found for some of these evils. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Society provides a remedy for these three inconveniences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- We were occupying ceased to afford comfortable quarters; and further orders not reaching us, we began to look about to remedy the hardship. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Tis an old remedy, said Clym distrustfully, and I have doubts about it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Nothing less than a repetition of that infallible remedy will relieve his feelings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No amount of improvement in the personal technique of the instructor will wholly remedy this state of things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But to suppose that the remedy lies in waiting for monographs from the research of the laboratory is to have lost a sense of the rhythm of actual affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She should have change, fresh air, gaiety; the most delightful remedies in the pharmacopoeia, Mr. Clump said, grinning and showing his handsome teeth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Rest and quiet, and change of air afterwards, were the best remedies which Mr. Dawson could suggest for her benefit. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Honest diseases they honestly cured; and if a man was wounded, they applied the proper remedies, and then let him eat and drink what he liked. Plato. The Republic.
- I administered the fitting remedies, and left my sweet niece to watch beside him, and bring me notice of any change she should observe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But the ruling class do not want remedies; they care only for money, and are as careless of virtue as the poorest of the citizens. Plato. The Republic.
- The medical man who looked in pronounced him shaky, agitated, and talked of a little blood and the seaside; but he took neither of these remedies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Had they faced the human sources of their problem, had they tried to think of the social evil as an answer to a human need, their researches would have been different, their remedies fruitful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The matter can be easily remedied, said the brow-beaten doctor; Mr. Sherlock Holmes can return to London by the morning train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And thus it occurred as a matter of fact, and the trouble was remedied. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Oh, that is soon remedied! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is a lack that should be remedied. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But he was awake now; all this should be remedied; and future devotion erase the memory of this only blot on the serenity of their life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Nearsightedness can be remedied by wearing concave glasses, since they separate the light and move the focus farther away. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The defect is remedied by concave glasses. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We might point to the first experiments aimed at remedying the helter-skelter of careers by vocational guidance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They are contrived to remedy like inconveniences, and acquire their moral sanction in the same manner, from their remedying those inconveniences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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