redress

Speech parts

1. redress - Noun

2. redress - Verb

Meaning

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

To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as 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.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

damages remedy restitution right indemnity address correct compensation offset compensate correction satisfaction reparation amends rectification
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Antonyms

mar increase blight damage break drop
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Hypernyms

change compensation alter modify correction rectification

Hyponyms

salve aby relief satisfaction atonement atone

Phrases with the word

make redress for seek redress collective redress collective redress action redress the balance judicial redress

Anagrams

dresser

Examples

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. George Canning

I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured. Abraham Lincoln

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. Abraham Lincoln

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. Harold H. Greene

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty and intelligence. Theodore Roosevelt

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. A. S. Byatt

Close letter words and terms

redrawing redream redredge redress the balance redressability redressable