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Meaning of 'redress' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Redress [ n.]
- 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.
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
2 . Redress [ v. t.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'redress' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . redress [ v]
Meaning (1):
- make reparations or amends for
Example in sentence:
  • right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust

Nearby Words:

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