Meaning & use
redressing
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Correcting or setting right a wrong, grievance, or imbalance.
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The new policy aims at redressing decades of unequal funding between schools.
The court ordered compensation as a means of redressing the harm done.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense of correcting wrongs comes from French 'redresser,' 'to set upright again.'
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aggravatingworsening
Another way to use it
2. verb
Dressing or bandaging a wound again.
The nurse began redressing the patient's wound with fresh gauze.
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