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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remediable
adjective
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▪ An unnecessary operation was deemed to be one that was performed without pathological evidence of surgically remediable disease.
▪ Identifying high risk groups should point towards the inequalities that are remediable.
▪ Is it associated with remediable personality traits?
▪ It is also the factor most likely to be remediable by practitioners.
▪ Section 146 distinguishes between remediable and irremediable breaches of covenant.
▪ Some suffering is, however, permanently painful, unendurable even, and is neither a transitional stage nor is remediable.
▪ The uncontrolled increase in the number of authors might be remediable to some extent by journals devising a collective policy.
▪ While Dave was still a problem, it now seemed to Mr E remediable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remediable

Remediable \Re*me"di*a*ble\ (r?-m?"d?-?-b'l), a. [L. remediabilis: cf. F. rem['e]diable.] Capable of being remedied or cured. [1913 Webster] -- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. - Re*me"di*a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
remediable

1560s, from Middle French remédiable, from Latin remediabilis "that may be healed, curable," from stem of remediare, from remedium (see remedy (n.)).

Wiktionary
remediable

a. Capable of being remedy.

WordNet
remediable

adj. possible to remedy; "remediable problems"; "a remediable setback"; "not a crime but only a remediable blunder" [ant: irremediable]

Usage examples of "remediable".

Bulstrode, having heard of Lydgate's debts, had been anxious to know whether her husband could not do something for poor Rosamond, and had been much troubled on learning from him that Lydgate's affairs were not easily remediable, and that the wisest plan was to let them "take their course.