MEANING
To put right a wrong, grievance, injustice, or imbalance.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- redress a grievance
- redress an imbalance
On the page
The hearing promised to redress the grievance, not to erase its history.
She redirected the funds to redress an imbalance no one had wanted to name.
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Word forms
- Base
- redress
- Past tense
- redressed
- Past participle
- redressed
- Present participle
- redressing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- redress
- Present continuous
- am/is/are redressing
- Present perfect
- have/has redressed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been redressing
- Past
- redressed
- Past continuous
- was/were redressing
- Past perfect
- had redressed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been redressing
- Future
- will redress
- Future continuous
- will be redressing
- Future perfect
- will have redressed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been redressing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: redress; redresses; redressed; redressed; redressing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: redresses.
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