Redress

Quick meaning: Redress is a verb meaning To put in order again; to set right; to revise.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
2. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
4. The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
5. A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
6. A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
7. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Example Sentences

And for thoſe Wrongs, thoſe bitter Iniuries, […] / I doubt not, but with Honor to redreſſe.

Syr ſaid Dynadan I ſhalle gyue you my beholdynge / wel ſaid Palomydes / thenne ſhall ye ſee how we ſhalle redreſſe our myghtes

Nor envy we / Thy great reknown, nor grudge thy victory; / 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress, / And fame has fill'd the world with thy success: […]

Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? / By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? / Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no!

Word Forms

• redresses
• redressing
• redressed
• re-dress

Synonyms for redress

Depending on context, synonyms include amends, indemnification, reparation, acquittal, assyth, bote.

Antonyms for redress

Common opposites include wrong.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remediation, remedy, compensate, amends, restitution, damages.

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