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remedy

noun
/ˈɹɛmədi/

Etymology

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.

  1. derived from remedium
  2. derived from *remedie✻
  3. inherited from remedie

Definitions

  1. Something that corrects or counteracts.

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

  3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins…

      The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

    2. 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,

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at remedy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at remedy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at remedy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA