All redress synonyms
reΒ·dress
R r verb redress
- avenge β If you avenge a wrong or harmful act, you hurt or punish the person who is responsible for it.
- grin and bear it β to suffer trouble or hardship without complaint
- make peace β the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
- make good β morally excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
- get well β conveying wishes for one's recovery, as from an illness: a get-well card.
- clean up β If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.
- do over β Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- forgive and forget β be reconciled
- counteract β To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
- kick the habit β quit smoking
- correct β If something is correct, it is in accordance with the facts and has no mistakes.
- atone β If you atone for something that you have done, you do something to show that you are sorry you did it.
- make for β to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
- expiate β Atone for (guilt or sin).
- dry out β free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- cancel out β If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- compensate β To compensate someone for money or things that they have lost means to pay them money or give them something to replace that money or those things.
- overcompensate β to compensate or reward excessively; overpay: Some stockholders feel the executives are being overcompensated and that bonuses should be reduced.
- go against β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- come to terms β to reach acceptance or agreement
- negate β to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
noun redress
- annuity β An annuity is an investment or insurance policy that pays someone a fixed sum of money each year.
- indemnification β the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- catholicon β a remedy for all ills; panacea
- downs β from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- balancing β the process of achieving or maintaining equilibrium
- amends β recompense or compensation given or gained for some injury, insult, etc
- counteractant β to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
- judicatory β of or relating to judgment or the administration of justice; judiciary: judicatory power.
- offsetting β something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
- cure β If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
- counteragent β a person or thing that counteracts
- judicature β the administration of justice, as by judges or courts.
- contentedness β satisfied; content.
- atonement β If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
- expiation β The act of making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing; atonement.
- amortisation β Alternative spelling of amortization.
- meed β a reward or recompense.
- compensation β Compensation is money that someone who has experienced loss or suffering claims from the person or organization responsible, or from the state.
- defrayal β payment of some or all charges or expenses.