as in avenged
to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for
the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified
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Recent Examples of redressed
The wounds and humiliations of private life can rarely be redressed by law; literature offers a parallel tribunal in which those hurts are litigated and, if possible, imaginatively overcome.
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Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Communities endured the triple indignity of working on the statues and being both redressed and oppressed by those statues.
—Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
Common calls came for gaps to be bridged, capacity to be built, benefits to be shared, stakeholders to be consulted, and inequalities to be redressed.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
But those sets needed to be redressed for all the other installments to represent the post-crash Maginot, plus there are lots of guest actors playing the crew, plus there are multiple action sequences.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Communities endured the triple indignity of working on the statues and being both redressed and oppressed by those statues.
—Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
Common calls came for gaps to be bridged, capacity to be built, benefits to be shared, stakeholders to be consulted, and inequalities to be redressed.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
But those sets needed to be redressed for all the other installments to represent the post-crash Maginot, plus there are lots of guest actors playing the crew, plus there are multiple action sequences.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for redressed
avenged
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The Bucs avenged a 12-10 loss and a 16-8 setback in the two regular-season matchups between the two teams.—
Alex Kushel,
Sun Sentinel,
10 May 2026
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Shirokawa, who had flown out twice to right, walked and struck out, came up with two outs and nobody on and then scored on an RBI single by junior second baseman Kelsey Covey as Burlington Central (10-12-1, 7-6) avenged an earlier 11-10 loss to the Whip-Purs.—
Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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“Redressed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redressed. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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