Remedied

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Fixed or corrected an issue or defect to restore proper function
2. Solved a difficulty or mistake to improve a condition or situation
3. Addressed and repaired a fault or error to make it right

Etymology: "Remedied" is the past tense and past participle of "remedy," so its story is really the story of the verb's root. That root is Latin "remedium," meaning a cure or remedy, built from "re-" ("again") and "mederi" ("to heal"). The idea embedded in it is restoration: a healing that returns something to its former, working state. The word reached English through Middle English "remedie," which came from Old French "remedie" or "remede." English also has a doublet, "remeid," which came into the language by a separate route and was used for a time alongside "remedy" before falling out of use. Thinking of "remedied" as a restored state helps explain its current sense. When a fault is fixed and a machine, system or argument works properly again, the verb describes that return to proper function, just as the Latin root described a cure that brings a body back to health.

Synonyms: cured, corrected

Antonyms: worsened