remedy
re- ‘back’ (also expressing intensive force) + mederi ‘heal’
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noun (plural remedies)
1. a medicine or treatment for a disease or injury:
【病気･痛みに対する】薬, 治療, 療法 «for»
e.g. herbal remedies for aches and pains.
a means of counteracting or eliminating something undesirable:
【問題などに対する】対策, 改善法 «for, against»
e.g. shopping became a remedy for personal problems.
a means of legal reparation:
〘法〙 【権利の侵害に対する】救済(方法), 補償 «for, against»
e.g. the doctrine took away their only remedy against merchants who refused to honor their contracts.
2. the margin within which coins as minted may differ from the standard fineness and weight.
verb (remedies, remedying, remedied) with object
set right (an undesirable situation):
〈問題･悪い状況など〉を改善する, …に対処する.
e.g. by the time a problem becomes patently obvious, it may be almost too late to remedy it.
DERIVATIVES
remediless adjective
ORIGIN
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French remedie, from Latin remedium, from re- ‘back’ (also expressing intensive force) + mederi ‘heal’.