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redress
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redress as in:  redress the problem

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    Basically, we need to redress that balance.  (source)
    redress = fix
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    Could anything be done to redress these inequities?  (source)
    redress = fix or remedy
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    Many and more of the matters brought before her involved redress.  (source)
    redress = fixing a problem; or making up for a wrong
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    If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.  (source)
    redress = remedy (making up for wrongs)
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    Westley asked question after question while the albino tended and redressed his wound, then fed him food that was warm and surprisingly good and plentiful.†  (source)
    redressed = fixed a problem; or made up for a wrong
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    CONSERVATIVE, OR BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.†  (source)
    redressing = fixing a problem; or making up for a wrong
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    Violations of the State constitutions are more likely to remain unnoticed and unredressed.  (source)
    unredressed = not corrected
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unredressed means not and reverses the meaning of redressed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And now had Greece eternal fame acquired, And frighted Troy within her walls, retired, Had not sage Helenus her state redress'd, Taught by the gods that moved his sacred breast.†  (source)
    redress'd = fixed a problem; or made up for a wrong
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    A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.  (source)
    redresser = someone who compensates or makes up for a wrong
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    Sir, I had thought, by making this well known unto you, To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful, By what yourself too late have spoke and done, That you protect this course, and put it on By your allowance; which if you should, the fault Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleep, Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal, Might in their working do you that offence Which else were shame, that then necessity Will call discreet proceeding.†  (source)
    redresses = fixes a problem; or makes up for a wrong
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    Of orisons ye shall understand, that orisons or prayers is to say a piteous will of heart, that redresseth it in God, and expresseth it by word outward, to remove harms, and to have things spiritual and durable, and sometimes temporal things.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She redresseth" in older English, today we say "She redresses."
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    …no answer whatever to the humble petitions of the colonies for redress of grievances and reconciliation with Great Britain has been or is likely to be given;  (source)
    redress = remedy
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    She had redressed herself, though her clothes remained torn and tattered.†  (source)
    redressed = fixed a problem; or made up for a wrong
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common meaning

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    All of a sudden, I'm overwhelmed by the thought that Peeta may be already lost, bled white, collected, and in the process of being transported back to the Capitol to be cleaned up, redressed, and shipped in a simple wooden box back to District 12.  (source)
    redressed = dressed again
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    Earlier, Mortenson had smoothed antibiotic cream into the hands of a twelve-year-old boy whose stepfather had pressed them to a stove, then redressed his bandages.  (source)
    redressed = wrapped in bandages again
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    She redresses us so regular clothes hide our uniforms before we even don our coats and cloaks.  (source)
    redresses = dresses again
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