redressed

verb

past tense of redress
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 When the morticians reunited with their heads on day two of the showcase, most of the major injuries had already been redressed. — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 You’ll be redressed and out of the security line faster than all of your travel mates. — Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026 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. — 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
Verb
  • Both teams are in a similar boat as SEC contenders that have avenged an early season conference loss.
    — PJ Green October 12, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Here are three takeaways from UCLA’s fifth win, which kept the Bruins among nine remaining undefeated Football Bowl Subdivision schools and avenged one of Chesney’s two losses last season when his magical run at James Madison ended against Oregon.
    — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of avenged

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“Redressed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redressed. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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