remediates

Makes things right

Remediates means to fix, correct, or improve something that has gone wrong.

The term appears most often in environmental and educational contexts: contaminated soil is remediated by removing pollutants; a student who struggles with reading remediates by working with a specialist.

The company spent millions to remediate the toxic waste site.

To remediate is to apply a remedy, making something closer to what it should be.

corrective

fixes

Repairs or solutions

corrects · repairs · amends · cures · heals · restores · improves · alleviates · mitigates · counteracts

environmental

contamination

Introduction of impurities

cleanup · toxic · hazardous · waste · brownfield · spill · decontamination · pollutants · restoration · bioremediation

educational

intervention

Purposeful involvement to change course

tutoring · struggling · skills · instruction · support · academic · catch-up · assessment · individualized · scaffolding

Opposites
corrective action

remediatesworsens

Becomes less favorable

exacerbates · aggravates · ignores · neglects · compounds

environmental/contamination context

remediatescontaminates

Makes unclean or impure

pollutes · degrades · despoils · blights · poisons

Phrases
Family

remediation, remediate, remediated, remediating, remediations

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Rated G