(a) To effect a cure; cure (sb., a sickness, disability); also, fig. cure (a moral weakness); impers. hit is remedied to, treatment is applied to (a hemorrhoid); (b) to put right (a bad situation), rectify; relieve (a disaster); recoup (a loss); supply (a need); cancel (a law, an ill-advised grant); repair (a bridge); (c) to comfort (a sorrowful person); assuage (grief); (d) to give legal redress to (sb.); win a lawsuit for (sb.).