Redress Synonyms and Antonyms

rĭ-drĕs
To make right what is wrong
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. correct
  2. remedy
  3. rectify
  4. amend
  5. right
  6. reform
  7. set right
  8. compensation
  9. adjust
  10. emend
  11. atone
  12. change
  13. mend
  14. counteract
  15. help
  16. indemnity
  17. negate
  18. offset
  19. payment
  20. recompense
  21. compensate
  22. relief
  23. relieve
  24. reparation
  25. vindicate
Antonyms:
  1. worsen
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To exact revenge for or from
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. avenge
  2. pay back
  3. pay off
  4. repay
  5. requite
  6. vindicate
  7. fix
  8. wreak
To give compensation to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pay
  2. compensate
  3. indemnify
  4. recompense
  5. reimburse
  6. remunerate
  7. repay
  8. requite
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To set right (an undesirable situation, for example); remedy or rectify.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. correct

Redress Sentence Examples

  • No false hope, no redress, no going back.

  • It was regarded as a universal duty to afford protection to one's kinsmen, to assist them in the redress of wrongs and to exact vengeance or compensation in case of death.

  • The result was that Protestant princes, including the three temporal electors, united in placing their grievances before the emperor; obtaining no redress they met at Torgau in 1591 and offered help to Henry IV.

  • La Salle, thus placed in a position of inferiority, left the islands and appealed unsuccessfully for redress at the court of Castile.

  • He banished the musicians and singers, and forbade all kinds of games; he devoted himself to the administration of justice, and gave public audiences to the people for the redress of their grievances.

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