remedy

remedy
1. noun
a) Something that corrects or counteracts.

He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

b) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
2. verb
To provide or serve as a remedy for.

Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,

Syn: redress, help, correct, cure
See Also: remediable, remedial

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