Diminish vs Redress - What's the difference?

Diminish is a related term of redress.

As verbs the difference between diminish and redress

is that diminish is to make smaller 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.

diminish

English

Verb

(es)

To make smaller.

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To become smaller.

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To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

This doth nothing diminish their opinion.

* Bible, Ezekiel xxix. 15

I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

* Milton

O thou at whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished heads.

To taper.

To disappear gradually.

To take away; to subtract.

* Bible, Deuteronomy iv. 2

Neither shall ye diminish aught from it.

(music) To reduce a perfect or minor interval by a semitone.

Derived terms

* law of diminishing returns

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

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