redeem
/ɹɪˈdiːm/ verb C1- To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
- To liberate by payment of a ransom.
- To set free by force.
- To save, rescue.
- To clear, release from debt or blame.
- To expiate, atone (for).
- To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
- To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
He/she/it redeems · Past redeemed · Past participle redeemed · -ing form redeeming
Verb forms
- Base form
- redeem
- He/she/it
- redeems
- Past
- redeemed
- Past participle
- redeemed
- -ing form
- redeeming
From the library
“These are all so many empty words, my dear sir,” said Morcerf: “they might satisfy a new acquaintance, but the Comte de Morcerf does not rank in that list; and when a man like him comes to another, recalls to him his plighted word, and this man fails to redeem the pledge, he has at least a right to exact from him a good reason for so doing.”
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