redress
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redress¹
- /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/ UK
- /ɹiˈdɹɛs/ US
- /ɹəˈdɹɛs/ US
Rhymes with -ɛs
Where it comes from
From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cure; (of hair) to stand on end; to revise a judgment”) (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again”), from Old French re- (“again, once more”) (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre- (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (“to dress; to stand up”) (from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre, a contracted form of *dīrēctiāre, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight”)).
Compare Catalan redreçar, Spanish redreçar (obsolete), Italian redreçare, redrezare, redricciare, ridirizzare (all obsolete), ridrizzare, Late Latin redressare (“to repair; to set right”), Old Occitan redreisar, redresar.
verb redresses · redressing · redressed
- To put in order again; to set right; to revise. Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: […]
- To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. And for thoſe Wrongs, thoſe bitter Iniuries, […] / I doubt not, but with Honor to redreſſe.
- To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. 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: […]
- To put upright again; to restore. Syr ſaid Dynadan I ſhalle gyue you my beholdynge / wel ſaid Palomydes / thenne ſhall ye ſee how we ſhalle redreſſe our myghtes
noun redresses
- The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation. Iohn. [of Lancaster] […] Let's drinke together friendly, and embrace, / That all their eyes may beare thoſe Tokens home, / Of our reſtored Loue and Amitie. / Biſh. [Archbishop of York] I take your Princely word, for theſe redreſſes.
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A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Similar: amends, indemnification, reparation, acquittal, assyth, bote, compensation, indemnity, mends, quittal, recompensation, recompense
- A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
- One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
redress²
- /ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/ UK
- /ɹiˈdɹɛs/ US
verb redresses · redressing · redressed · re-dress
- To dress again. The top soil, which was removed before the main excavations, is being redressed on the new slopes to a depth of 4 in. and sown with grass seed.
- To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set. Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set.
noun redresses · re-dress
- The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set. The Honeydukes set in this film is a redress of the set of Flourish and Blotts that was seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which, in turn, was a redress of the Ollivander's set from the first film.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: remediation, remedy, compensate, amends, restitution, damages, indemnity, indemnification, right, correct, rehabilitate, rehabilitation, recovery, remediate, recover, rectify
Translations
Every language
verb To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise
| Română | redresa |
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| Русский | исправля́ть ispravljátʹ |
verb To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from
| Русский | исправля́ть ispravljátʹ, восстана́вливать vosstanávlivatʹ |
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verb To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon
| Русский | компенси́ровать kompensírovatʹ |
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verb To put upright again; to restore
| Русский | поднима́ть podnimátʹ |
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noun The act of redressing
| 中文 | 纠正 jiūzhèng |
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| Русский | исправле́ние ispravlénije |
noun A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong
| Español | compensación |
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| Русский | восстановле́ние vosstanovlénije |
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title = {redress},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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