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Mend vs Redress - What's the difference?

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Mend is a related term of redress.


As verbs the difference between mend and redress

is that mend is to feed 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.

mend

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
  • The act of repairing.
    • My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend .

    Derived terms

    * on the mend

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
    • My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending .
    When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended .
  • To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
    • Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
    My broken heart was mended .
  • * Sir W. Temple
    • The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
  • To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
  • * Mortimer
    • Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You mend the jewel by wearing it.
  • To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

    • Derived terms

    * mend one's pace
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Related terms

    * amend * mend

    External links

    * * * English ergative verbs

    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