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Definition of redress :
1. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
2. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
3. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
4. To dress again.
5. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
6. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
7. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
Synonyms:
regaining, restoration, allowance, chastise, amendment, even out, objurgate, forgiveness, conciliation, reformation, castigate, amend, repayment, mend, setoff, quittance, discipline, pay back, cover, even off, cure, fix, decline, reform, repair, pay off, even up, requital, therapeutic, indemnity, vindicate, remission, indemnify, renewal, indemnification, remediation, chasten, make up, right, emend, damages, counterbalance, slump, payment, pay, substitute, revision, rehabilitation, wreak, requite, overcompensate, insurance, change, sort out, relief, curative, set, remodeling
atonement (part of speech: noun)
recompensation, redemption, penance, appeasement, reparation, satisfaction, retribution
recompense (part of speech: verb)
reimburse, remedy, adjust, compensate, rectify, atone, refund, recompense, correct, return, offset, settle, square, remunerate
atone (part of speech: verb)
make amends, restitute, retaliate, redeem, appease
restitution (part of speech: noun)
correction, settlement, adjustment, offsetting, rectification, atonement, squaring, compensation, restitution, reimbursement, remuneration, amends
revenge (part of speech: verb)
punishment, vengeance, punish, retaliation, counteraction
retaliate (part of speech: verb)
reprise, respond, avenge, counteract, reciprocate, counter, repay, exchange, counterblow, retribute, countercharge, return fire, revenge, retort
Usage examples:
- " Alas, then," exclaimed Ten- teh, " is there, under the most enlightened form of government in the world, no prescribed method of obtaining redress?" - "Kai Lung's Golden Hours", Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc.
- Sprucehill shall have redress for the insult put upon her favorite daughter. - "Phemie Frost's Experiences", Ann S. Stephens.
- And is there ever any redress for the mother- bird, Padre? - "Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man", Marie Conway Oemler.