remedynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈrem.ə.di/us/ˈrem.ə.di/B2 a successful way of curing an illness or dealing with a problem or difficulty:
an effective herbal remedy for headaches
The best remedy for grief is hard work.
legal remedy specialized
a way of solving a problem or ordering someone to make a payment for harm or damage they have caused, using a decision made in a law court:
We have exhausted all possible legal remedies for this injustice.
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- You can buy most cold remedies over the counter.
- homeopathic remedies
- There is a whole panoply of remedies and drugs available to the modern doctor.
- Do you know of any remedies for sinus problems?
- Love is a great remedy for unhappiness.
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Medicine in different forms
- anesthetic
- bolus
- counter
- dose
- drug
- hormone replacement therapy
- medicate
- medicinal
- meds
- ointment
- pharma
- placebo
- preparation
- radiotherapy
- restorative
- Rx
- tablet
- tonic
- topical
- vial
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Solving and solutions
Court cases, orders & decisions
remedyverb [ T ]
uk/ˈrem.ə.di/us/ˈrem.ə.di/formalto do something to correct or improve something that is wrong:
This mistake must be remedied immediately.
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Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- reconstruction
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- revised
- smooth
- sort sth/sb out
- troubleshooting
- tune
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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