- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

- provide relief for
"remedy his illness"

- set straight or right
"remedy these deficiencies"
"rectify the inequities in salaries"
"repair an oversight"

1. That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.

2. That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.

"What may else be remedy or cure To evils which our own misdeeds have wrought, He will instruct us." -- Milton.

3. (Law) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.

Civil remedy
See under Civil.

Remedy of the mint
(Coinage), a small allowed deviation from the legal standard of weight and fineness; -- called also tolerance.

Syn. -- Cure; restorative; counteraction; reparation; redress; relief; aid; help; assistance.

1. To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.

"I will remedy this gear ere long." -- Shak.