To set up or upright; make erect; reërect.To set right again; restore; amend; mend.To put right, as a wrong; remedy; repair, relieve against, as an injury: as, to redress injuries; to redress grievances. See redress, n., 2.To relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; bestow relief upon; compensate; make amends to.To rise again; reërect one's self.n. A setting right again; a putting into proper order; amendment; reformation.n. Deliverance from wrong, injury, or oppression; removal of grievances or oppressive burdens; undoing of wrong; reparation; indemnification.n. Synonyms Relief, amends, compensation.To dress again, in any sense: as, to redress furniture or leather; to redress a wound.