redress

[Re*dress·]

The verb redress is used when you are supposed to fix a problem and make amends. You want your parents to redress the fact that you don't have a pet. Your parents offer to get a hamster, but instead, you say you want a monkey.

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To dress again.

Noun
act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Noun
a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

Verb
make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

v. t.
To dress again.

v. t.
To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.

v. t.
To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

v. t.
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

n.
The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.

n.
A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.

n.
One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Redress

Re*dress" (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.] To dress again.

Redress

Re*dress" (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [F. redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See Dress.] 1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [R.]

The common profit could she redress.

In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.

Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared.

2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . . I doubt not but with honor to redress.

3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. "'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress." Dryden.

Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?

Redress

Re*dress", n. 1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. [R.]

Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.

2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. Shak.

A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal.

3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.

To dress again.

To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.

The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.

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Usage Examples

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.