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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : rem-i-dee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛm ɪ di



Definition of remedy

Origin :
  • c.1200, "cure for a disease or disorder; means of counteracting an evil," from Anglo-French remedie, Old French remede "remedy, cure" (12c., Modern French remède) and directly from Latin remedium "a cure, remedy, medicine, antidote, that which restores health," from re-, intensive prefix (or perhaps literally, "again;" see re-), + mederi "to heal" (see medical (adj.)). Figurative use from c.1300.
  • noun cure, solution
  • verb fix, cure
Example sentences :
  • The remedy, however, to my mind, is obvious and suggests itself.
  • Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
  • It is the crisis which makes the pressure, and not the laws which provide a remedy for it.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • To consider these evils, to find their remedy, is the most sore necessity of our times.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • It was as if she found in sheer activity and fatigue a remedy for her uneasiness.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • You laugh at my prescriptions, and refuse to take the remedy which I ordered.
  • Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
  • There is no other remedy than this which I have brought thee.
  • Extract from : « The Man of Adamant » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • And are not my sister's tears a reason, sir, when I cannot remedy their cause?
  • Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa
  • And, further, when I had a chance to learn my remedy for myself, you destroyed it.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • If you had not the remedy--this what-you-call--pilocarpin, what would you do?
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • The loss of poor Bill made us all sad; but there was no remedy.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

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