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1. Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
   - redress, remediation, redressal
    
2. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieves pain
   - curative, cure, therapeutic
    
3. (law) the legal means to recover a right or obtain redress for a wrong

1. Set straight or right
   "remedy these deficiencies";
   - rectify, remediate, repair, amend
    
2. (medicine) provide relief for
   "remedy his illness";
   - relieve

Derived forms: remedies, remedied, remedying

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

Part of: intervention, treatment

Encyclopedia: Remedy