remediate

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verb

re·​me·​di·​ate ri-ˈmē-dē-ˌāt 

remediated; remediating; remediates

transitive verb

: to make (something) the target of remedial action : to provide a remedy for

… the process of removing the spent fuel, draining the holding pool, remediating the site, and treating contaminated groundwater.

—Jeff Johnson

Work is underway … to remediate erosion on a 6000 foot section on the Gill bank of the Connecticut River.

—David Detmold

But here's the thing: [basketball coach John] Calipari was worried, worried enough to try all sorts of things behind the scenes to remediate his team's results at the line.

—Alexander Wolff

remediate

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adjective

re·​me·​di·​ate ri-ˈmē-dē-ət 

archaic

: remedial

Examples of remediate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

The vulnerability, which Microsoft has now remediated, put 400 million users of Office 365 at risk of a 2FA bypass attack requiring no user interaction, triggering no alerts and only taking an hour to complete. —Davey Winder, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024

After years of planning, the site was remediated within weeks in 2021. —John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 12 Dec. 2024

Adjective

Industrial hemp helps remediate soil and Brown favors organic and regenerative methods over pesticide-reliant crops such as tobacco. —Longreads, 6 Dec. 2024

Risk managers and compliance teams need to work with supplier managers to engage their upstream suppliers, remediate compliance exposures and document them for regulators, and transfer risks to the insurance marketplace. —Evan Smith, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1837, in the meaning defined above

Adjective

1605, in the meaning defined above

Legal Definition

remediate

transitive verb

re·​me·​di·​ate ri-ˈmē-dē-ˌāt 

: to make the target of remedial action

the commissioner of environmental protection…shall conduct remedial actions necessary to remediate the pollution at or on the site

—General Statutes of Connecticut