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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɛs|-ɛs

Noun

The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
:This is a redress of the office set.

Verb

To dress again.
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 redecorating a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Redress \Re*dress"\ (r[=e]*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.]
To dress again.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Redress \Re*dress"\ (r[-e]*dr[e^]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.]
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The common profit could she redress. --Chaucer.
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In yonder spring of roses intermixed
With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
--Milton.
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Your wish that I should redress a certain paper
which you had prepared. --A. Hamilton.
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2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make
amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
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Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . .
I doubt not but with honor to redress. --Shak.
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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.
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Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? --Byron.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Redress \Re*dress"\, n.
1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation;
correction; amendment. [R.]
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Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us
the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
--Hooker.
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2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as,
the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy;
reparation; indemnification. --Shak.
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A few may complain without reason; but there is
occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
--Davenant.
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3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
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Fair majesty, the refuge and redress
Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.
--Dryden.
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WordNet redress
n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn:
damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution]
2: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: remedy,
remediation]
v : make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate, correct]
[ant: wrong]

Moby Dictionary
amend , amends , annul , atone , atone for , atonement , balancing ,
blood money , cancel out , commutation , compensate , compensation ,
composition , compromise , consideration , correct , correction ,
counteract , counteraction , counterbalancing , countercheck , damages ,
emend , expiate , expiation , expiatory offering , fixing , frustrate ,
get satisfaction , give satisfaction , guerdon , honorarium ,
indemnification , indemnify , indemnity , kick back , lex talionis ,
live down , make all square , make amends , make compensation ,
make good , make matters up , make reparation , make requital ,
make restitution , make retribution , make right , make up for ,
make up to , making amends , making good , making right , making up ,
meed , mending , negate , negative , offsetting , overhaul , overhauling ,
pay , pay back , pay damages , pay in kind , pay off , pay reparations ,
pay the forfeit , pay the penalty , paying back , peace offering ,
piaculum , price , propitiate , propitiation , put right , put straight ,
put to rights , quit , quittance , reclamation , recompense , recoup ,
rectification , rectify , redeem , redemption , refund , reimburse ,
reimbursement , remedy , remunerate , remuneration , repair , repairing ,
reparation , repay , repayment , reprisal , requital , requite ,
requitement , restitution , retaliation , retribution , return ,
revenge , reward , right , salvage , satisfaction , satisfy , set right ,
set straight , set to rights , set up , smart money , solatium , square ,
square it , square things , squaring , substitution , troubleshooting ,
vengeance , vindicate , wergild

REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.

REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.