redress

Noun

a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
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.
The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Verb

make reparations or amends for
To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
To put upright again; to restore.
To dress again.
To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
-ED, -ING, -ES to set right

Origin / Etymology

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 *dirēctiāre, from Latin dīrectus (“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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

wrong

Scrabble Score: 8

redress: valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
redress: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
redress: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

redress is a valid Words With Friends word