remedy. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

remedy

SYLLABICATION:	rem·e·dy
PRONUNCIATION:	rm-d
NOUN:	Inflected forms: pl. rem·e·dies 1. Something, such as medicine or therapy, that relieves pain, cures disease, or corrects a disorder. 2. Something that corrects an evil, fault, or error. 3. Law A legal order of preventing or redressing a wrong or enforcing a right. 4. The allowance by a mint for deviation from the standard weight or quality of coins.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: rem·e·died, rem·e·dy·ing, rem·e·dies 1. To relieve or cure (a disease or disorder). 2. To remove, counteract, or rectify. See synonyms at correct. , cure.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English remedie, from Old French, from Latin remedium : re-, re- + medr, to heal; see med- in Appendix I.


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