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Alleviate vs Redress - What's the difference?

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Alleviate is a related term of redress.


As verbs the difference between alleviate and redress

is that alleviate is to make less severe, as a pain or difficulty while redress is to put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise or redress can be to dress again.

As a noun redress is

the act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment or redress can be the redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

alleviate

English

Verb

  • To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty.
    • Alcohol is often a cheap tool to alleviate the stress of a hard day.

    Synonyms

    * address, allay, ameliorate, assuage, ease, mitigate, relieve

    Related terms

    * alleviated * alleviation * alleviator

    redress

    English

    (wikipedia redress)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) redrecier and (etyl) redresser, from (re-) + .

    Verb

    (es)
  • To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  • * Milton
    • In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
  • * A. Hamilton
    • your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared
  • To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, / I doubt not but with honour to redress .
  • To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  • * Dryden
    • 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress .
  • * Byron
    • Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?
  • (obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
    • ‘Well,’ sayde Sir Palomydes, ‘than shall ye se how we shall redresse oure myghtes!’
    Derived terms
    * self-redress

    Noun

    (redresses)
  • The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
  • A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
  • One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (es)
  • To dress again.
  • * 1963 , Albert J. Solnit, ?Milton J. E. Senn, ?Sally Provence, Modern perspectives in child development (page 588)
    • The teacher first undressed and redressed the doll for the child, then showed her how to pull the snaps apart. No other activity interested the little girl, and after repeated demonstrations she was still trying unsuccessfully to undress the doll.
  • To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

    • Noun

    (redresses)
  • The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
    • This is a redress of the office set.

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms