Synonyms for remedy
ˈrɛm ɪ direm·e·dy

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1. remedy

   Synonyms:
   advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, service, utility

   Antonyms:
   blemish, damage, detriment, disadvantage, evil, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, injustice, loss, mischief, outrage, prejudice, wrong

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1. remedy

   Synonyms:
   cure, restorative, counteraction, reparation, redress, relief, help, specific

   Antonyms:
   evil, disease, hurt, infection, plague, ill, impairment, deterioration, aggravation, provocation

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. redress, remedy, remediationnoun

   act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

   Synonyms:
   redress, indemnification, restitution, damages, amends, therapeutic, remediation, indemnity, curative, cure

2. remedy, curative, cure, therapeuticverb

   a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

   Synonyms:
   therapeutic, cure, redress, curative, remediation

3. rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amendverb

   set straight or right

   "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight"

   Synonyms:
   right, reform, compensate, revivify, remediate, recompense, fix, bushel, reanimate, mend, vivify, amend, renovate, improve, correct, quicken, regenerate, reclaim, resort, restore, ameliorate, relieve, rectify, touch on, recreate, refine, repair, animate, better, furbish up, meliorate, revive, doctor, indemnify

4. remedy, relieveverb

   provide relief for

   "remedy his illness"

   Synonyms:
   exempt, relieve, unbosom, allay, excuse, ease, repair, free, salve, rectify, salvage, amend, assuage, remediate, alleviate, let off, take over, still, palliate, lighten, save

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1. alexiteric

   ease at the bowel movements, ease in the stomach pain during the urge to pass stools, sudden depression in the muscles of the stomach and intestine to release the undigested food material.

   a person undergoing pain before passing stools will be released by the consumption of the fruit of the agathi tree.

   Submitted by naveenshreeshaiva on March 18, 2020  

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1. remedynoun

   Synonyms:
   cure, antidote, specific, restorative, help, medicine, corrective, counteractive

2. remedynoun

   Synonyms:
   reparation, redress, restoration

3. remedyverb

   Synonyms:
   cure, heal, help

4. remedyverb

   Synonyms:
   repair, redress, restore

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1. remedynoun

   Synonyms:
   medicine, cure, antidote, corrective, specific, restorative, panacea, alterant, carminative, medicament, arcanum, prescription, nostrum, elixir, balm, reparation, cure, redress, aid, relief

2. remedyverb

   Synonyms:
   heal, cure, repair, relieve, redress, alleviate, assuage, palliate

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1. List of paraphrases for "remedy":

   redress, rectify, cure, recourse, remedial, correct, resort, remedies, resource, repair, appeal, remedying, address, reparation, solution, use, resolve, overcome, fix, correcting, alleviate, solve, fill, remediate, appeals, relief, corrective

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. remedy

   Synonyms:
   Homeopathic remedy, see there
   

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1. Florence Nightingale:

   By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

2. Boris Johnson:

   We have a choice to make now, and that means choosing between options that actually exist, it is very painful to vote for this deal. But I hope we can now work together to remedy its defects.

3. Peter De Vries:

   Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

4. Minor Myers:

   These cases suggest appraisal can still be a useful remedy for a stockholder, but you can't just have a briefcase full of analysis and hope to pull the wool over a judge's eyes.

5. Jade Borgeson:

   The division is continuing to proactively contact impacted taxpayers to remedy the error, and apologizes for any inconvenience the error may have caused.