Dictionary Entry
redress
redress is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To dress again. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To dress again.
- 2transitive verb
To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
- 3transitive verb
To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- 4transitive verb
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- 5noun
The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
- 6noun
A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
- 7noun
One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- 8noun
act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
Synonyms
- 9noun
a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- 10verb
make reparations or amends for
"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
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