remedy

/ˈre-mə-dē/

Middle English remedie, from Anglo-French, from Latin remedium, from re- + mederi to heal

noun

  1. a medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease

  2. something that corrects or counteracts

  3. the legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong

verb

  1. to provide or serve as a remedy for : relieve

remedy a social evil

correct rectify emend remedy redress amend reform revise mean to make right what is wrong. correct implies taking action to remove errors, faults, deviations, defects. rectify implies a more essential changing to make something right, just, or properly controlled or directed.

noun

  1. medicine to take for treating the symptoms of cold