Redeem

Definition:

  • (v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
  • (v. t.) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
  • (v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
  • (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.

Compare redeem with other words:

redeem vs. surrender

receive vs. redeem

claim vs. redeem

redeem vs. saved

amortization vs. redeem

redeem vs. return

recreate vs. redeem

redeem vs. salvation

redeem vs. reimburse

mobile vs. redeem

redeem vs. redemptive

irreclaimable vs. redeem

deem vs. redeem

redeem vs. tacking

hercules vs. redeem

compensate vs. redeem

redeem vs. redemptory

redeem vs. redemptorist

redeem vs. redemptioner

redeem vs. unredeemed

redeem vs. redeemer

abandon vs. redeem

redeem vs. redeemable

redeem vs. repurchase

honour vs. redeem

reclaim vs. redeem

redeem vs. reputation

redeem vs. restore

redeem vs. reform

redeem vs. repair

consequence vs. redeem

redeem vs. sin

redeem vs. state

cash vs. redeem

convert vs. redeem

atone vs. redeem

expiate vs. redeem

blame vs. redeem

debt vs. redeem

clear vs. redeem

ransom vs. redeem

liberate vs. redeem

ownership vs. redeem

paying vs. redeem

recover vs. redeem

redeem vs. rescue

redeem vs. save