Definition of remedy

"remedy" in the noun sense

1. redress, remedy, remediation

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

2. remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic

a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

"remedy" in the verb sense

1. rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend

set straight or right

"remedy these deficiencies"

"rectify the inequities in salaries"

"repair an oversight"

2. remedy, relieve

provide relief for

"remedy his illness"

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Quotations for remedy

Force is no remedy. [ John Bright ]

Patience with poverty
Is a poor man's remedy.

Unkindness has no remedy at law. [ Proverb ]

Oblivion: a remedy for human misery. [ A. de Musset ]

The remedy is worse than the disease. [ Bacon ]

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow. [ Publius Syrus ]

Time is the greatest remedy for anger. [ Seneca ]

Danger itself the best remedy for danger. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Men blush to be cured by a shameful remedy. [ Proverb ]

The noblest remedy of injuries is oblivion. [ Proverb ]

There is no remedy for all evils but death. [ Proverb ]

There is no remedy for time misspent,
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment,
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble. [ Plaut ]

The best remedy for injuries is to forget them. [ Latin Proverb ]

Till vice gets an habit, there is a remedy for it. [ Proverb ]

Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy. [ Proverb ]

Folly is the one evil for which there is no remedy. [ Spanish Proverb ]

There is a remedy for everything could men find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction. [ Plautus ]

The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy. [ Martin Luther ]

Against the evil of death there is no remedy in the garden.

The best remedy of afflictions is submitting to providence. [ Proverb ]

There is a remedy for every thing, could we but hit upon it. [ Proverb ]

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin. [ Horace Bushnell ]

There is a remedy for every wrong, and a satisfaction for every soul. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Every fool can find faults, that a great many wise men cannot remedy. [ Proverb ]

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done is done. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. [ Willmott ]

Death is a certain remedy for the injuries of fortune and vexations of life. [ Proverb ]

The remedy is worse than the disease (the disorder increases with the remedy).

It is not the disease but neglect of the remedy which generally destroys life. [ From the Latin ]

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own. [ Cicero ]

Life is disease of which sleep relieves us; it is but a palliative: death is the remedy. [ Chamfort ]

It is wiser to run away when there is no remedy, than to stay and die in the field foolishly. [ Proverb ]

There is a remedy for everything but death, who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches. [ Cervantes ]

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. [ Chamfort ]

There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. [ Johnson ]

Alas! alas! why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; and he that might the vantage best have took found out the remedy. [ William Shakespeare ]

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse; borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Lord Bacon ]

The only sovereign remedy is to give Christ the pre-eminence in our hearts; for then we shall undervalue all temporal things in comparison of Him. [ Fisher's Catechism ]

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us. [ Voltaire ]

Society, that distills so many poisons, resembles that serpent of India whose abode is the leaf of the plant that cures its bite: society usually offers a remedy for the sufferings it causes. [ A. de Musset ]

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse - a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. [ Colton ]

The reasonable worship of a just God who punishes and rewards, would undoubtedly contribute to the happiness of men; but when that salutary knowledge of a just God is disfigured by absurd lies and dangerous superstitions, then the remedy turns to poison. [ Voltaire ]

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer; for there is no such flatterer as a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. [ Bacon ]

remedy in Scrabble®

The word remedy is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters remedy:

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remedy in Words With Friends™

The word remedy is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters remedy:

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Words within the letters of remedy

2 letter words in remedy (5 words)

3 letter words in remedy (7 words)

4 letter words in remedy (12 words)

5 letter words in remedy (3 words)

6 letter words in remedy (1 word)

remedy + 1 blank (1 word)

remedy + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence remedy

Words that start with remedy (2 words)

Words with remedy in them (1 word)

Words that end with remedy (2 words)

Word Growth involving remedy

Shorter words in remedy

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Longer words containing remedy

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