Redress

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  • transitive verb. To set right (an undesirable situation, for example); remedy or rectify. synonym: correct.
  • transitive verb. To make amends to.
  • noun. Satisfaction for wrong or injury; reparation.
  • noun. The act of redressing; rectification or reformation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To dress again, in any sense: as, to redress furniture or leather; to redress a wound.
  • To set up or upright; make erect; reërect.
  • To set right again; restore; amend; mend.
  • To put right, as a wrong; remedy; repair, relieve against, as an injury: as, to redress injuries; to redress grievances. See redress, n., 2.
  • To relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; bestow relief upon; compensate; make amends to.
  • To rise again; reërect one's self.
  • noun. A setting right again; a putting into proper order; amendment; reformation.
  • noun. Deliverance from wrong, injury, or oppression; removal of grievances or oppressive burdens; undoing of wrong; reparation; indemnification.
  • noun. Synonyms Relief, amends, compensation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To dress again.
  • noun. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
  • noun. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; ; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
  • noun. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
  • transitive verb. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  • transitive verb. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  • transitive verb. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  • verb. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  • verb. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  • verb. To put upright again; to restore.
  • noun. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
  • noun. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
  • noun. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
  • verb. To dress again.
  • verb. To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
  • noun. The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
  • verb. make reparations or amends for
  • noun. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
  • Word Usage
    "He seized upon the best apartments, and carried himself with so much haughtiness, that, provoked beyond endurance, I ordered my horse, and, accompanied by my honest courtiers, rode to Rouen to obtain redress from the governor."
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