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Remedied vs Solved - What's the difference?

remedied | solved |

As verbs the difference between remedied and solved

is that remedied is (remedy) while solved is (solve).

As an adjective solved is

having a solution, having been explained or answered.

remedied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (remedy)

  • remedy

    English

    (wikipedia remedy)

    Noun

    (remedies)
  • Something that corrects or counteracts.
  • (legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

    Derived terms

    * remediless

    Verb

  • To provide or serve as a remedy for.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 27.
  • Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
    Synonyms
    * redress * help * correct * cure * See also

    solved

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a solution, having been explained or answered.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (solve)
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