remediate

Meanings

verbremediate (third-person singular simple present remediates, present participle remediating, simple past and past participle remediated)

present singular third person remediates · participle present remediating · participle past remediated · past remediated

transitiveTo correct or improve (a deficiency or problem).
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.
2024 April 17, Howard Johnston, “Network News: Easter buses as NR engages in 493 engineering projects”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 21, photo caption
Synonyms: rectify, remedy

adjectiveremediate (comparative more remediate, superlative most remediate)

archaicrareeducationIntended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject.
obsoleteRemedial.
Be aidant and remediate / In the good man's distress!
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]