Definitions for redeem
rɪˈdimre·deem

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. deliver, redeem, saveverb

   save from sins

2. redeemverb

   restore the honor or worth of

3. redeemverb

   to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange

4. ransom, redeemverb

   exchange or buy back for money; under threat

5. redeem, pay offverb

   pay off (loans or promissory notes)

6. redeemverb

   convert into cash; of commercial papers

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. redeemverb

   To recover ownership of something by paying a sum.

2. redeemverb

   To liberate by payment of a ransom.

3. redeemverb

   To set free by force.

4. redeemverb

   To save, rescue

5. redeemverb

   To clear, release from debt or blame

6. redeemverb

   To expiate, atone (for ...)

7. redeemverb

   To convert (some bond or security) into cash

8. redeemverb

   To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).

9. redeemverb

   To repair, restore

10. redeemverb

    To reform, change (for the better)

11. redeemverb

    To restore the reputation or honour of oneself or something.

12. redeemverb

    To reclaim

13. Etymology: Recorded since c.1425, from redemen, modified from redemer, redimer, from redimo, itself from re- + emo.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To REDEEMverb

   Etymology: redimo, Lat.

   1. To ransom; to relieve from any thing by paying a price.

   The kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine inheritance. Ruth iv. 6.

   2. To rescue; to recover.

   If, when I am laid into the tomb,
   I wake before the time that Romeo
   Comes to redeem me, there’s a fearful point. William Shakespeare.

   Thy father
   Levied an army, weening to redeem
   And re-instal me in the diadem. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

   Th’ almighty from the grave
   Hath me redeem’d; he will the humble save. George Sandys.

   Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Ps. xxv.

   Redeem from this reproach my wand’ring ghost. Dryden.

   3. To recompense; to compensate; to make amends for.

   Waywardly proud; and therefore bold, because extremely faulty; and yet having no good thing to redeem these. Philip Sidney.

   This feather stirs, she lives; if it be so,
   It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows
   That ever I have felt. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Having committed a fault, he became the more obsequious and pliant to redeem it. Henry Wotton.

   Think it not hard, if at so cheap a rate
   You can secure the constancy of fate,
   Whose kindness sent what does your malice seem
   By lesser ills the greater to redeem. Dryden.

   4. To pay an atonement.

   Thou hast one daughter,
   Who redeems nature from the general curse,
   Which twain have brought her to. William Shakespeare.

   5. To save the world from the curse of sin.

   Which of you will be mortal to redeem
   Man’s mortal crime. John Milton.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Redeemverb

   to purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase

2. Redeemverb

   to recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage

3. Redeemverb

   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

4. Redeemverb

   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

5. Redeemverb

   hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law

6. Redeemverb

   to make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises

7. Redeemverb

   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

8. Etymology: [F. rdimer, L. redimere; pref. red-, re- re- + emere, emptum, to buy, originally, to take, cf. OIr. em (in comp.), Lith. imti. Cf. Assume, Consume, Exempt, Premium, Prompt, Ransom.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Redeem

   rē-dēm′, v.t. to ransom: to relieve from captivity by a price: to rescue, deliver: to pay the penalty of: to atone for: to perform, as a promise: to improve, put to the best advantage: to recover, as a pledge.—adj. Redeem′able, that may be redeemed.—ns. Redeem′ableness; Redeem′er, one who redeems or ransoms, esp. Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world.—adjs. Redeem′ing, saving: good, as exceptional to what is bad; Redeem′less, incurable; Redemp′tive, pertaining to redemption: serving or tending to redeem; Redemp′tory, serving to redeem: paid for ransom. [O. Fr. redimer—L. redimĕre—red-, back, emĕre, to buy.]

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1. • Cash
   • Crime
   • Exchange
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Anagrams for redeem »

1. deemer

2. remede

3. meered

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of redeem in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of redeem in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of redeem in a Sentence

1. Ann Li:

   It’s funny because I played there on the same court — with the same ref, too — last year, so, I was like: I’ve got to redeem myself.

2. Saadi Shirazi:

   Dost thou desire that thine own heart should not suffer, redeem thou the sufferer from the bonds of misery.

3. Fernando Machado:

   Sometimes someone has a poor connection, or maybe one specific restaurant out of 14,000 may not have been geolocated properly or somebody tried to redeem the coupon during breakfast.

4. Aldous Huxley:

   Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

5. Bayard Rustin:

   When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too.

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