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redress

 
Noun redress has 2 senses
  1. damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
    --1 is a kind of compensation
    --1 has particulars:
     relief; actual damages, compensatory damages, general damages; nominal damages; punitive damages, exemplary damages, smart money; atonement, expiation, satisfaction
    Derived form: verb redress1
  2. redress, remedy, remediation - act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
    --2 is a kind of correction, rectification
    --2 has particulars: salve
    Derived form: verb redress1
Verb redress has 1 sense
  1. right, compensate, redress, correct - make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
    --1 is one way to change, alter, modify
    Derived forms: noun redress2, noun redress1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
redounds redox redpoll redraft redraw redrawing redrawn redresal redress redressal redressed redrock redroot redshank redshift redskin redskins

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