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remedy English

Meaning remedy meaning

What does remedy mean?
Definitions in simple English

remedy Noun

— A remedy is something that corrects or counteracts something. — A remedy is a treatment, medicine, or application that cures a sickness or disease. Antivenom is the remedy for a snake bite.

remedy Verb

— If something remedies something, it provides a remedy for it.

remedy

— verb (= rectify, repair) set straight or right remedy these deficiencies rectify the inequities in salaries repair an oversight — noun (= redress) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil — noun (= cure) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain — verb provide relief for remedy his illness

Synonyms remedy synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as remedy?

remedy English » English

cure medicine heal drug treatment repair redress treat rectify means medication expedient antidote solution remediate therapy recover correct care for amend aid way restorative resource physician mend medicament help healer fix reparation relieve recourse expedience correction avenue agency therapeutic set right remediation put right prescription pharmaceutical medical treatment make good livelihood improve doctor curative counteraction

Topics remedy topics

What do people use remedy to talk about?
Person Healthy

Treat disease
Person Healthy Treat disease

Medicine
States Quality Good

Improve

Conjugation remedy conjugation

How do you conjugate remedy?

remedy · verb

Examples remedy examples

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Simple sentences

Hot lemon with honey is a good remedy for colds.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
I need a remedy for the pain.
Is there a home remedy for that?
What is the best remedy for colds?
What's the best remedy for colds?
To be spared from all those horrors, only one remedy is available: language reform.
Don't worry. We can remedy the mistake we've made.
Complaining won't remedy the situation.
Patience is a remedy for every grief.
Tea tree oil is a natural remedy that can be used to treat acne.

Movie subtitles

The consultation: the bark of palm.. is considered a good remedy to make the tail come out.
The misery shown in this film is not without remedy.
Absolutely useless, beyond all remedy.
I can remedy that.
Madame, you must undoubtedly know of some remedy for toothache.
There's no remedy.
There's one remedy: Forgiveness.
That shouldn't be too hard to remedy. for you.
I have no remedy to obey.
Left to Ireland? - There is no other remedy.
Perhaps we should try a more energetic remedy.
As vodka is my illness, but also its remedy.
He knew he was beaten now, finally and without remedy.
The best plague remedy.
No remedy.
Do you know any remedy for a poisonous snakebite?
Now, I can remedy that.
Now will remedy that when you come up to London.
So you have taken it upon yourself to remedy the defects of Spanish justice?
Some of Monsieur Journet's excellent wine will soon remedy that.
Captain, there must be a remedy.
Congestion-reducer and the distemper remedy didn't help much?
Bottles and more bottles, has no remedy.
I have no remedy to obey. -We see another.
There is no other remedy.
If you have a better remedy, I would find it quickly.
Give me patience to. and give me a remedy.
Dr. Dopley's Indian Remedy.
There's only one remedy.
Perhaps it's the weight of your purse that wearies you. I can remedy that.
No, but I can remedy that, sir.
But for that, too, Mothers' Aid has the remedy.
We must take a more sure remedy.
I tried everything, every human remedy.
I can't, Your Majesty. Mem, shall you be forgetting that work is always best remedy?
There's a remedy for that.
Oh, well, that's very easy to remedy. One, two, three, and drink.
I think we can remedy that.
Uh.perhaps we should try. a more energetic remedy.
And then, in desperation, when confronted with the growing chain of evidence, they sought to remedy the situation by getting married and playing the part of the two young lovers for the benefit of every tabloid scandal sheet in the country.
The Fujiwara clan, which for centuries assured the security of the State, was impotent to remedy this situation.

News and current affairs

They found no remedy, in either Uganda or Germany, for the violation of rights that, according to the Committee, they possess under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Germany is a signatory.
One extreme is the simplistic Keynesian remedy that assumes that government deficits don't matter when the economy is in deep recession; indeed, the bigger the better.
The government has done little to remedy this.
Chicago economists seem to believe that real-world outcomes are acceptably unfair and, more importantly, that attempts to remedy unfairness are too costly, because tampering with markets causes economic inefficiency.
The Keynesian remedy, the argument went, ignored the effect of fiscal policy on expectations.
But stimulus cannot be seen as a universal remedy.
The project of the new European Constitution was devised to remedy this problem.
Converting all outstanding government bonds - with the exception of Greece's - into Eurobonds would be by far the best remedy.
But they would remedy the euro's main design flaw.
The media are no remedy, as competition for ratings forces them to favor oversimplification over differentiation, complexity, and nuance.
The other three have some charm and ability, but have offered nothing like a remedy to Japan's deep structural problems, mostly because they all have not adamantly tackled the problems.
If the public is not happy about high superstar incomes, the obvious remedy is to improve the tax system, including for powerful sports-team owners, many of whom benefit from huge tax breaks in their day jobs.
Unfortunately, much of the world transplant establishment - including the WHO, the international Transplantation Society, and the World Medical Association - advocates only a partial remedy.
The remedy to this corrupt and unregulated system of exchange is a regulated and transparent regime devoted to donor protection.
The single most important driver of deficit growth is weak tax revenues, owing to poor economic performance; the single best remedy would be to put America back to work.
The brute force of massive monetary and fiscal stimulus rings hollow as a cyclical remedy to this problem.
Is it possible that the diagnosis is right, but that the remedy is wrong?
But to describe a challenge as global is not to argue that the remedy is to be found only in an ambitious, formal, and universal treaty.
Indeed, I consider the EFSF to be a stopgap measure while we remedy the fundamental shortcomings of the Stability and Growth Pact, whose fiscal rules lack both substantive and formal bite.
But what was an emergency remedy has become a long-term policy, because there is no economic activity to take its place.
Are those who agitate for affirmative action fighting for something that is more a quack remedy than a real solution?
Recent attempts to remedy this under the Capital Requirements Directive have been disappointing, even though it was plainly the best that could be achieved politically given EU countries' differing views on prudential supervision.
But does the remedy lie in tougher measures - such as heavier penalties or even eviction - to enforce the eurozone's rules, or do the rules need to be adjusted to accommodate members' varying circumstances?
As a remedy, he set up a War Responsibility Re-Examination Committee at his newspaper to undertake a 14-month investigation into the causes of Japan's Pacific War.
Though there was no market failure to remedy, the government obliged, introducing high import tariffs and subsidies for powerful local growers; as a result, productivity declined.

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