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# remedy

«remedy» in Mova's school dictionary: **A medicine or treatment that cures or helps an illness** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a remedy, remedies); verb (remedy, remedies, remedied, remedying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A medicine or treatment that cures or helps an illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#m1)

2) A way to fix a problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#m2)

3) (verb, formal) To put right or fix: remedy the situation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and health, home remedies like honey for a cough. In stories and history, herbal remedies. In formal language, «remedy the problem». Phrases: home remedy, herbal remedy, a remedy for.

### examples

- Honey and lemon is a remedy for a sore throat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#x1)
- Grandma has a remedy for everything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#x2)
- There is no remedy for the common cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#x3)
- We need a remedy for the noise in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#x4)
- The school remedied the problem with new heaters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#x5)
- Some old remedies don't really work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#x6)
- Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/#x7)

### note

Plural: remedies; past: remedied (y to i). Safety: some «natural remedies» are myths and can be harmful; ask a doctor.

### In the corpora

- [Tu Youyou used one: she tested an old Chinese remedy and found a malaria medicine that won a Nobel Prize.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/60-china-mei-s-exaggerations-and-everyday-china/7/)
- [Natural does not mean safe: some herbal remedies can harm, or interact with other medicines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/13/)
- [Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; on a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.156/)
- [He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.833/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «remedy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remedy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.