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Definition of Remedy
Remedy

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.

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

The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.

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

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Remedy Quotations

To do nothing is also a good remedy.
Hippocrates

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Remedy Translations

remedy in Dutch is beter maken, genezen, helen
remedy in Finnish is keino
remedy in German is Heilmittel {n}, Heilmittel, Abhilfe {f}
remedy in Latin is rememdium, obviam ire
remedy in Norwegian is middel
remedy in Spanish is remedio, remediar


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