Remedy Meaning
/ˈɹɛmədi/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounSomething that corrects or counteracts.
nounThe legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
Sentence Examples
We have yet to discover an effective remedy for cancer.
This is an effective remedy for crime.
The only remedy lies in cleaning the entire system.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor prescribed a ____ for the patient's severe lung infection last week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The lawyer sought a legal ____ for the breach of contract that had caused her client significant losses.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent."
— 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
"Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,"
— 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 27:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor prescribed a ____ for the patient's severe lung infection last week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The lawyer sought a legal ____ for the breach of contract that had caused her client significant losses.