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- Redress - v. t. - To dress again.
- Redress - v. t. - To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
- Redress - v. t. - To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- Redress - v. t. - To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- Redress - n. - The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
- Redress - n. - A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
- Redress - n. - One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
- Redressal - n. - Redress.
- Redresser - n. - One who redresses.
- Redressible - a. - Such as may be redressed.
- Redressive - a. - Tending to redress.
- Redressless - a. - Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable.
- Redressment - n. - The act of redressing; redress.
- Expostulate - v. i. - To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with.
- Action - n. - A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
- Prosecute - v. t. - To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot.
- Redress - n. - A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
- Distress - n. - The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
- Prosecution - n. - The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.