1. to correct or improve a bad or undesirable situation
Usage: formal
2. to clean up environmental contamination or pollution
Usage: environmental science
3. to provide additional instruction to help students reach required academic standards
Usage: education

Examples

• The company must remediate the contaminated soil before construction begins.
• Teachers worked to remediate students’ reading difficulties through targeted instruction.
• The government plans to remediate the environmental damage caused by the oil spill.
• Special programs were created to remediate learning gaps in mathematics.
• Engineers are developing new methods to remediate polluted groundwater.
• The school district will remediate students who failed the standardized test.
• Efforts to remediate the toxic waste site will take several years to complete.