Crossword-Solution: REDRESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REDRESS | anagram | DRESSER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REDRESS (5)
When she saw that she could get no redress and that her words were despised, the Owl attacked the chatterer by a stratagem.
Are you possessed of affluence?--what an inexhaustible fund of happiness will she lay before you! To relieve the distressed, redress the injured, in short, to perform all the good works of peace and mercy.
Itamar FRANCO, who assumed the presidency following President COLLOR'S resignation in December 1992, was out of step with COLLOR'S reform agenda; initiatives to redress fiscal problems, privatize state enterprises, and liberalize trade and investment policies have lost momentum.
Thus was the poor girl compelled to return, without redress, and perhaps to receive an additional flogging for daring to appeal to old master against the overseer.
The London Times, in a recent editorial discussing affairs in the Transvaal, where Englishmen have been denied certain privileges by the Boers, says: "England is too sagacious not to prefer a gradual reform from within, even should it be less rapid than most of us might wish, to the most sweeping redress of grievances imposed from without.
Quotes with REDRESS (3)
Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true. We do not know that God is not as cruel as a Spanish inquisitor. Suppose, then, He is! If, after Death, we wicked ones were shovelled into a furnace of fire- we should have to burn. There would be no redress. It would simply be the Divine Order of things. It is outrageous that we should be so helpless and so dependent on any one- even God.
The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so intoxicatingly beautiful--had no turned out to be the great, mutually fulfilling love she was convinced she had a full right to expect. Her father was the owner of two prosperous Prague pharmacies, and her morality was based on strict give-and-take. For her part, she had invested everything in…
And now I demand that you do what the ignorant might feel is the easier thing. You must refrain from dying in battle. Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. The dead are not your masters.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 44 times in crossword archives (1943–2023).