Making things right

By weeklyvolcano on August 29, 2008

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redress \rih-DRES\, transitive verb:
1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
4. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
5. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.

USAGE EXAMPLE: After thinking long and hard about the situation, Dom DeLuise decided to redress the situation, and replace the gallon of mayonnaise he’d made off with.

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