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1. Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
   - redress, remediation
    
2. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
   - curative, cure, therapeutic

1. Set straight or right
   "remedy these deficiencies"
   - rectify, remediate, repair, amend
    
2. Provide relief for
   "remedy his illness"
   - relieve

Derived forms: remedied, remedying, remedies

See also: remedial

Type of: care for, correct, correction, medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine, rectification, rectify, right, treat

Part of: intervention, treatment

Encyclopedia: Remedy