Meaning

6 senses

  1. To put in order again; to set right; to revise.

    исправля́тьispravljátʹ

  2. To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

    исправля́тьispravljátʹ, восстана́вливатьvosstanávlivatʹ

    make reparations or amends for

  3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

    компенси́роватьkompensírovatʹ

  4. To dress again.

  5. To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

  6. (obsolete, transitive)To put upright again; to restore.

    поднима́тьpodnimátʹ

Examples

4 sentences

  1. A fault confessed is half redressed.

    ruПризнанная ошибка наполовину исправлена.

    deEinsicht ist der erste Schritt zur Besserung.

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  2. A fault confessed is half-redressed.

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  3. You have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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  4. The law is meant to redress decades of discrimination against the country's ethnic minorities.

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Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 4
To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise:
To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from:
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon:
To put upright again; to restore:

Origin

From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Midd

From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cure; (of hair) to stand on end; to revise a judgment”) (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again”), from Old French re- (“again, once more”) (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre- (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (“to dress; to stand up”) (from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre, a contracted form of *dīrēctiāre, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight”)).

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Forms

redresses, redressing, redressed, redressed
Base formredress · to redress
3rd person singularredresses
Present participleredressing
Past simpleredressed
Past participleredressed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyredress
he, she, itredresses

Past simpleLesson

all personsredressed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave redressed
he, she, ithas redressed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill redress

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words
Derivedredressabilityredressableredressalredresserredressiveredresslessself-redressunredressableunredressed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
redoubleredrawreduceB1reductionB1redundancyC2redundantB2
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