Redress

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1. Verb

To dress again.

2. Verb

To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.

3. Verb

To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

4. 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

a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Vocabulary classified under Law

9. Noun

act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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