noun pl. remedies -·dies

1. any medicine or treatment that cures, heals, or relieves a disease or bodily disorder or tends to restore health
2. something that corrects, counteracts, or removes an evil or wrong; relief; redress
3. Law a means, as court action, by which violation of a right is prevented or compensated for; legal redress

Etymology: ME remedie < Anglo-Fr < OFr remede < L remedium < re-, again + mederi, to heal, akin to medicus: see medical

transitive verb remedied -·died, remedying -·dy·ing

1. to cure or heal, as with medicine
2. to put back in proper condition; put right
3. to correct or remove (an evil, etc.)