remediate
English
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- IPA(key): /ɹəˈmiːdieɪt/, /ɹɪˈmiːdieɪt/
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- IPA(key): /ɹəˈmiːdieɪt/, /ɹɪˈmiːdieɪt/
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Verb
editremediate (third-person singular simple present remediates, present participle remediating, simple past and past participle remediated)
- (transitive) To correct or improve (a deficiency or problem).
- 2024 April 17, Howard Johnston, “Network News: Easter buses as NR engages in 493 engineering projects”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 21, photo caption:
- Network Rail's busy Easter included a ten-day closure of the main trans-Pennine route between Manchester and Leeds, for work to install a new bridge deck at Huddersfield, remediate mining works at Ravensthorpe and Huddersfield, and to lay new track at Deighton and Mirfield.
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editremediate (comparative more remediate, superlative most remediate)
- (rare, archaic, education) Intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject.
- (obsolete) Remedial.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- Be aidant and remediate / In the good man's distress!
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editremediate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of remediar combined with te
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