redresse

Verb (1)

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

1. To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
   • Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: […]1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer Aldgate; And by Robert Boulter at the...
2. To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
   • And for thoſe Wrongs, thoſe bitter Iniuries, […] / I doubt not, but with Honor to redreſſe.1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac...
3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
   • Nor envy we / Thy great reknown, nor grudge thy victory; / 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress, / And fame has fill'd the world with thy success: […]1806, John Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite; or, The Knight's Tale. From [Geoffrey] Chaucer.”, in Thomas Park, editor, Fables from Bocaccio and Chaucer: … In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions...
4. (obsolete, transitive) To put upright again; to restore.
   • Syr ſaid Dynadan I ſhalle gyue you my beholdynge / wel ſaid Palomydes / thenne ſhall ye ſee how we ſhalle redreſſe our myghtes1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xviij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book X, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 222, recto; republished as H[einrich]...

Verb (2)

redress (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

1. To dress again.
   • The top soil, which was removed before the main excavations, is being redressed on the new slopes to a depth of 4 in. and sown with grass seed.1958 January, “Rainham-Newington Widening, Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, pages 51, 53
2. To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
   • Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set.1989, American Cinematographer, volume 70, Hollywood, Calif.: ASC Holding Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90

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