Synonyms of redresses

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noun

plural of redress

as in damages

payment to another for a loss or injury

the new skis were certainly an adequate redress for the lost snowboard

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damages
• reparations
• compensations
• satisfactions
• restitutions
• reprisals
• indemnities
• recoupments
• punishments
• recompenses
• punitive damages
• indemnifications
• remunerations
• adjustments
• amends
• quittances
• reimbursements
• refunds
• settlements
• repayments
• atonements
• expiations
• solatia
• retaliations
• requitals

redresses

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verb

present tense third-person singular of redress

as in avenges

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• avenges
• revenges
• retaliates
• punishes
• requites
• venges
• corrects
• gets even (for)
• penalizes
• compensates
• castigates
• repays
• chastises
• fixes
• rights
• disciplines
• chastens
• scourges
• pays (back)
• gets
• recompenses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• forgives
• remits
• excuses
• absolves
• condones
• pardons

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of redresses

Verb

There are so many reasons to be mad; the mostly baseless and endless attacks on higher education, the dismantling of life-saving research, ICE, the subverting of policy that redresses shameful social harms. — Wendy Nelson Espeland, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026