repair

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making things better
add salt to somethingidiom
allay
alleviate
alleviation
ameliorate
cultivate
levelling up
liven (something) up
lubricate
make a differenceidiom
make a world of differenceidiom
remedial
restructure
revamp
revitalize
revivify
revolutionize
salve
sharpen
tonic

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Correcting and mending

Examples of remediate

remediate
Findings from these investigations will have important implications for refining the ways we diagnose and remediate different subgroups of children with autism spectrum disorders.
Failure to remediate or sell sites would result in forefeiture and local agencies would use the money to finance remediation.
The drugs remediated a largely subcortical network of brain areas that might be difficult to control voluntarily.
Contaminated soils can be remediated in several ways.
Speech and language therapy is required to remediate the resulting speech disorder rather than further surgery.
Understanding these effects is central to any attempt to manage or remediate contaminated land.
Other scientists are refining, modifying, or combining existing treatment methods and developing new techniques for remediating contaminants in cold regions.
Generally there is a tradeoff between the time it takes to remediate a contaminant and the cost or input involved.
The typical intervention services provided to maltreated infants are not sufficient to remediate their early developmental difficulties.
How do early care experiences shape development, and to what extent can later experiences remediate the effects of early adverse care?
Further surgery is usually required to remediate these problems, although speech and language therapy may also be necessary.
Such knowledge can foster the discovery of interventions tailored to remediate those processes.
Typically, retraining treatments involve the use of tasks or games which patients practice repetitively and through rehearsal it is assumed that cognitive skills are remediated.
Thus, this multifaceted intervention works to remediate areas of need on entry into first grade and build skills that will change the developmental trajectory of these children.
Unfortunately, these well-intentioned measures seem to miss the heart of the problem, in that these avenues are seldom utilized to remediate problems and the unethical behavior continues.
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