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The Meaning of redeem
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(v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
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(v. t.) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
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(v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin.
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(v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like.
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(v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
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(v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
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(v. t.) To pay the penalty of; to make amends for; to serve as an equivalent or offset for; to atone for; to compensate; as, to redeem an error.
Synonyms
spare
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pull through
,
economize
,
extradite
,
ransom
,
rescue
,
hand over
,
carry through
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surrender
,
make unnecessary
,
salvage
,
return
,
save
,
lay aside
,
fork up
,
present
,
have
,
deport
,
relieve
,
salve
,
hold open
,
keep
,
save up
,
give up
,
turn in
,
birth
,
render
,
fork over
,
pitch
,
preserve
,
deliver
,
write
,
keep open
,
fork out
,
cede
,
drive home
,
bring through
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pay off
,
give birth
,
economise
,
bear
,
make up
,
pay
,
buy off
,
pay back
,
liquidate
,
get
,
compensate
,
fix
Rhymes
academe
,
agleam
,
avrim
,
basim
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beahm
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beam
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beem
,
bireme
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bleam
,
bloodstream
,
bream
,
chromakalim
,
cream
,
creme
,
daelim
,
daydream
,
deam
,
deem
,
diehm
,
downstream
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dream
,
episteme
,
esteem
,
extreme
,
fleam
,
gleam
,
gleim
,
greim
,
grieme
,
hakim
,
hapoalim
,
haradim
,
ibrahim
,
joachim
,
karim
,
keim
,
liem
,
mainstream
,
maxime
,
midstream
,
mneme
,
moonbeam
,
passim
,
pezim
,
priem
,
raheem
,
rahim
,
ream
,
regime
,
reim
,
sarofim
,
scheme
,
scream
,
seam
,
seem
,
sephardim
,
siem
,
steam
,
stream
,
sunbeam
,
supreme
,
team
,
teem
,
theme
,
thieme
,
upstream
,
vadim
,
ziehm