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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of redress.

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Examples

  • "No," he said, shaking his head emphatically, "the men refuse to sneak out of the country before they have what they call redressed the wrong done those poor villagers.

    Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns W. P. Shervill 1915

  • Barry redressed the building, added tower elements and slathered the whole thing with a thick icing of period detail, and voila: The earls of Carnarvon had a house that suggested a long pedigree and hearkened back to the fantasy days of Good Queen Bess.

    A Victorian fantasy, in stone Philip Kennicott 2011

  • The house, a three bedroom on the sad-sack end of Rose Street in Far Rockaway, was just a redressed bungalow, with sagging doorframes and floors that moaned with every step.

    The Last Lion Brittany Newmark 2011

  • They have a serious legal or ethical concern about some activity of their company, and feel it can only be redressed with the help of the media.

    Fortune's Stanley Bing: Why People Leak to the Media <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011

  • No amount of rebranding or rescheduling of the fixture list to give the teams a fair chance of coverage in the unfamiliar territory of Thursday nights has redressed that anomaly.

    Disparaged Europa League can inspire magical European nights | Rob Bagchi 2012

  • Third Man might still be a few dungarees short of morphing into a latter day Olivia Records – they put out their fair share of material by male acts too – but it seems to be one of the few rock'n'roll labels where the balance of female to male artists is truly being redressed.

    Jack White, the champion of women musicians 2011

  • Having been produced by government policy, they can be redressed by a change in policy. . .

    Economics for the Long Run John B. Taylor 2012

  • He wore his whistle in the wrong pocket until my former Inspector now retired walked up to him in the peelers and redressed him in front of the entire crowd.

    Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • As successful as they were at the box office (which isn't hard to achieve when it comes to summer audiences and their infamously short attention span ...) "Transformers 2", "Star Trek" and a host of other summer films were simply redressed rehashes (with the exception of "District 9", which was great, in my humble opinion).

    AVATAR Zooms Past $800 Million Worldwide on Its Way to $1 Billion – Collider.com 2010

  • The house, a three bedroom on the sad-sack end of Rose Street in Far Rockaway, was just a redressed bungalow, with sagging doorframes and floors that moaned with every step.

    The Last Lion Brittany Newmark 2011

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