REDRESS

redress, remedy, remediation

(noun) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress

(noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

right, compensate, redress, correct

(verb) make reparations or amends for; “right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

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

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

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

(transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.

Noun

redress (countable and uncountable, plural redresses)

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

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

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

Etymology 2

Verb

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

To dress again.

(film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Noun

redress (plural redresses)

(film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Anagrams

• Dresser, dresser

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*dress" (r*drs"), v. t. Etym: [Pref. re- + dress.]

Definition: To dress again.

Re*dress" (r*drs"), v. t. Etym: [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. Chaucer. In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton. Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. A. Hamilton.

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. Shak.

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 Byron.

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. Hooker.

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. Davenant.

3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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