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

1. transitive verb. To dress again.
2. transitive verb. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
3. transitive verb. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
4. transitive verb. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
5. noun. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
6. noun. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
7. noun. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
8. noun. act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

   Synonyms: remediation, remedy

9. noun. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

   Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, restitution

10. verb. make reparations or amends for

    "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

    Synonyms: compensate, correct, right

Synonyms

remediation, remedy, amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, restitution, compensate, correct, right

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in redress:

dresser

Common word forms

redressal, redressed, redresser, redresses, redressing, redressable, redressless, redressment

Words from these letters

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