redress

  1. Verb.  To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  2. Verb.  To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  3. Verb.  To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  4. Verb.  (obsolete, transitive) To put upright again; to restore.
  5. Noun.  The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
  6. Noun.  A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
  7. Noun.  One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
  8. Verb.  To dress again.
  9. Verb.  To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
  10. Noun.  The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

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