Redeem

Definitions: Redeem

Redeem

Verb

1. From sins, as in religious dogma.

2. Exchange or buy back for money; under threat.

3. Pay off, as of loans or promissory notes.

4. Convert into cash; of commercial papers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "redeem" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Redeem

Acquisition

Get back, recover, regain, retrieve, revendicate, replevy, redeem, come by one's own.

Atonement

Verb: atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt.

Compensation

Verb: make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem; (atone).

Deity

Atone, redeem, save, propitiate, mediate;

Deliverance

Verb: deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off,bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve; (restore); be rid of, get rid of.

Duty

Enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty; (be virtuous).

Memory

Redeem from oblivion; keep the memory alive, keep the wound green, pour salt in the wound, reopen old wounds'; tangere ulcus; keep up the memory of; commemorate; (celebrate).

Observance

Perform an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation; make good; make good one's word, make good one's promise, keep one's word, keep one's promise; redeem one's pledge; keep faith with, stand to one's engagement.

Payment

Verb: pay, defray, make payment; paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready money, pay at sight, pay in advance; cash, honor a bill, acknowledge; redeem; pay in kind.

Probity

Redeem one's pledge; keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as good as one's word; keep faith with, not fail.

Restitution

Redeem, recover; (get back); take back again.

Restoration

Redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve; rescue; (deliver).

Substitution

Verb: substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.

Virtue

Verb: be virtuous; Adjective: practice virtue;Noun: do one's duty, fulfill one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge, keep one's promise; act well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in the right path.

Crosswords: Redeem

Redeem yourself or, if you prefer, avenge yourself. (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

Go, and redeem some other promising young creature, but leave me to keep Christmas in my own way. (Scrooge; writing credit: Charles Dickens; Noel Langley)

I swear on the lives of my children, give me one last chance to redeem myself and I will sin no more. (The Godfather: Part III; writing credit: Mario Puzo; Francis Ford Coppola)

A king, Caesar, who is to come and redeem Israel of all its sins. (I, Claudius; writing credit: Robert Graves; Jack Pulman)

To Redeem an Oath (1915)

The Gods Redeem (1915)

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Books

• A Fadeaway Dream of Justice to Redeem (reference)

• Lent 2001Redeem: Risen to Redeem (Scriptures for the Church Seasons) (reference)

• Only the Nude Can Redeem the Landscape (reference)

• Redeem the Time (reference)

• Redeem the Time: Sin in the Writings of John Owen (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Redeem (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She determined to redeem her error, so far as it might yet be possible.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Venezuela

Employers can do this by providing their own canteen, contracting with a food service or distributing lunch tickets that workers can redeem at food establishments. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Under this code, a man, his family, and his tribe are obligated to take revenge for wrongs--either real or perceived--to redeem their honor. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

Because workers earn so little and sometimes cannot wait until payday to redeem their tickets, an informal barter system has evolved in which the tickets also are used to purchase items at private stores located on the plantations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "redeem": redeem a bill ♦ redeem a debt ♦ redeem a mortgage ♦ redeem oneself ♦ To redeem the time. Additional references.

Albanian

riblej (repurchase), shpengoj (disembarrass, free), shlyej (clear, discharge, expiate, forgive, liquidate, make good, make up, purge, satisfy, settle, Square, work off), paguaj (buy, defray, disburse, fee, foot, fork out, give, meet, pay, pay out, pay up, plank, reckon, recompense, remunerate, render, repay, reward, settle), nxjerr nga pengu. (various references)

Arabic 

‏عاود شراء, ‏أصلح (amend, fix, mend, overhaul, pacify, piece, reclaim, recondition, rectify, redress, refit, reform, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, retrieve, rig, right, see, set right), ‏أعتق (emancipate, enfranchise, exonerate, liberate, manumit, release), ‏إتبرئ من, ‏إفتدى (buy), ‏جدد (freshen, furbish, innovate, modernize, reawaken, recondition, refurbish, regenerate, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retrieve), ‏رمم (furbish, mend, patch, recondition, reconstructed, refit, refurbish, refurbishment, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, restore, revamp), ‏خلص ينقذ (extricate, rid, save, set at large), ‏فك رهنا, ‏عوض (atone, indemnity, make, make amends, make up, make up for, offset, recompense, recoup, recuperate, reimburse, remunerate, requital, restore, retrieve, satisfy, setoff, substitute), ‏سدد الدين (pay back), ‏حرر (cast off, clear, decontrol, deliver, detach, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, grant freedom, liberate, manumit, open, phrase, redact, release, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, subedit, unchain, uncork, unleash, unlock, unstitch), ‏وفى ب (fulfil, fulfill, satisfy), ‏وفى بوعده (deliver, deliver the goods, go back on, honor, honour, promise), ‏كفر ذنوبه, ‏خلص (clear, cleave, keep faith, manumit, mop up, relieve, rescue, true). (various references)

Bulgarian 

компенсирам (atone, compensate, countervail, indemnify, make amends, make good, make restitution, offset, recoup, redress, repair, reward, set off), възвръщам си (get back, recapture, regain, repossess, resume, retrieve), освобождавам (discharge, disencumber, disengage, dispense, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, extricate, free, give off, let loose, liberate, loose, make free, manumit, release, remit, rescue, set free, turn off, unbar, unbind, unburden, uncork, unfasten, unhand, unloose, unpen, unshackle, vacate), балансирам (balance, compensate, poise, tie in), погасявам (amortise, amortize, clear off, extinguish, pay off, quit, sink), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp), изкупувам, изкупвам (atone, buy in, buy out, condone, expiate, make satisfaction for, purge, ransom, righten), избавям (bring off, deliver, extricate, rescue, retrieve, rid, save), изпълнявам (accomplish, accord, act up to, carry into effect, carry out, complete, effectuate, execute, exercise, fill, fulfil, fulfill, handle, implement, make up, perform, play, practise, pursue, put into effect, put through, satisfy, verify). (various references)

Chinese 

赎回 (redeemed, redeeming, redemptive), 贖回 , 贖 (to ransom). (various references)

Czech

zachránit (bring off, rescue, salvage, save), vysvobodit (disenthral, set free), vykoupit (ransom, recover, snatch up), umořit, uhradit (cover, defray, meet, refund, reimburse), splnit (accomplish, carry out, discharge, fulfil, fulfill, implement, keep, perform, satisfy), splatit (clear, clear off, pay up, refund, repay, return), spasit (save), smířit (conciliate, pacify, reconcile), odpykat, nahradit (compensate, make good, make up for, recompense, recover, refund, reimburse, repay, replace, retrieve, substitute, supersede, supplant, supply), inkasovat (cash, concede, draw, encash), dodržet (abide, stand, stand by). (various references)

Danish

afkøbe (ransom). (various references)

Dutch

loskopen (ransom), afkopen (commute, ransom, to buy off, to buy out, trade for, trade in for). (various references)

Esperanto

elpagi (pay off), elaĉeti (ransom). (various references)

Farsi 

ازگرودراوردن , رهاءی دادن (Rescue), بازخریدن . (various references)

Finnish

lunastaa (buy out, honour, meet, pay, to redeem). (various references)

French

racheter. (various references)

Frisian

ôflosse (amortize, deaden, pay off), ôfkeapje (ransom). (various references)

German

zurückkaufen (buy back, repurchase, to buy back, to redeem, to repurchase), löschen (amortize, blot, blow out, clear, close, deaden, delete, discharge, erase, erasing, erasure, expunge, extinction, extinguish, kill, land, pay off, purge, put out, quench, quenching, rub off, rub out, scratch, slake, souse, strike off, switch out, to delete, to erase, to expunge, to extinguish, to kill, to slake, turn off, unload, unship, wipe out, zap), einlösen (cash, cash in, encash, fulfill, honor, honour, to cash, to redeem). (various references)

Greek 

εξαγοράζω (buy off, ransom, take over, to buy off, to buy out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפ�"ות (ransom, release), ל�'אול (deliver, liberate, ransom, rescue, salvage). (various references)

Hungarian

visszavásárol (to buy in, to redeem), visszaszerez (recover, regain, retrieve, to get back, to make up, to reclaim, to recover, to recuperate, to redeem, to regain, to resume, to retrieve, to win back), törleszt (repay, sank, sunk, to amortize, to redeem, to sink), megvált (buy, commute, to buy off, to redeem, to save), kivált (check out, ransom, to antedate, to buy off, to check out, to create, to generate, to occasion, to precipitate, to provoke, to redeem, to take out, to trigger, to trigger sg off), jóvátesz (heal, make amends, make good, to condone, to make good, to plaster, to recompense, to redeem, to retrieve). (various references)

Icelandic

leysa út (ransom). (various references)

Indonesian

tebus (compensate for some wrong), menebus (compensate for some wrong), aplos (relieve, take turn). (various references)

Italian

riscattare (ransom, to buy off, to buy out), riabilitare (reclaim, rehabilitate), redimere, salvare (be spared, deliver, keep, rescue, salvage, save), disimpegnare (disengage, free, get out of pawn, manage, release), compensare (cancel, clear, compensate, compensate each other, compensate for, indemnify, make up for, offset, pay, reward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �引き (uproot). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねびき (discount, price reduction, uproot). (various references)

Korean 

되사십시�". (various references)

Manx

kionnaghey reesht (redemption), aa-eaysley (redemption, release, reloosen), aachionnaghey (redemption, repurchase). (various references)

Pig Latin

edeemray

Portuguese

resgatar (disenthral, emancipating, purge, ransom, rescue, to buy off, to buy out), remir (forge, forgive, purge, ransom, remit). (various references)

Romanian

respecta (esteem, follow, hold, honor, honour, keep, observe, regard, respect, revere), rãscumpãra (expiate, ransom), salva (bring off, deliver, escape, extricate, free, pull through, rescue, salvage, salve, save), compensa (atone for, cancel, compensate, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, indemnify, make up for, offset, recoup, satisfy), amortiza (absorb, amortize, break, cushion, damp, deaden, extinguish, liquidate, pay off), îndrepta (aim, align, amend, bend, better, cast, chasten, correct, direct, drive, guide, head for, improve, lead, mend, point at, reclaim, recover, redress, reduce, reform, remedy, right, send, set, shape, steer, straighten, tend, train, unbend). (various references)

Russian 

выкупать (bathe, ransom), выполнять (accomplish, achieve, carry out, do, effect, execute, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, outputs, perform, performed, put through, satisfy, transact), возвращать (bring back, give back, pay back, re-cede, reimburse, repay, return, returned, returned to, revert), возмещать (atone, compensate, make good, make good to, make up, recoup, recoupe, reign, reimburse, reimbursed, repair, repay, replace), исправлять (amend, amending, correct, emend, fix, mend, re establish, readjust, reclaim, rectify, rectifying, redress, red-short, remedy, repair, retrieve, revise). (various references)

Scottish

saor (a carpenter, carpenter, cheap, cheapen, deliver, easily, frank, free, gratuitous, rescue, save, set at liberty, unrestrained, wright). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ublažiti (alleviate, attemper, become tempered, buff, cushion, dull, ease, lessen, mince, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palliate, soft pedal, soften, soothe, temper, tone down), otkupiti (buy up, ransom, repurchase), nadoknaditi (catch up, compensate, make good, make it up, make up, make up for, make up to, recompense, recoup, recover, reimburse), iskupiti (atone, ransom). (various references)

Spanish

rescatar (bring off, ransom, recover, rescue, to buy off, to buy out), redimir (pay off, ransom), amortizar (amortise, amortize, deaden, pay off). (various references)

Swedish

utlösa (ransom, release, spring, to open, wreak), infria (fulfil, fulfill), återlösa. (various references)

Thai

แลกเป็นเงิน, ไถ่บาป (save), ช�"ใช้ (give back), กู้ชื่อเสียง (rehabilitate), ซื้อคืน (buy back). (various references)

Turkish

yerine getirmek (accomplish, acquit oneself, answer, carry through, complete, discharge, execute, fulfil, fulfill, implement, make good, meet, observe, perform, put in force, satisfy, serve, settle, stick to), tutmak (abide by, add up to, affect, Bate, be, bespeak, bind, book, catch, charter, check, choke, choke back, choke down, choke off, claw hold of, clench, clutch, cog, cohere, come to, confine, constrain, contain, cost, cramp, engage, Favor, favour, figure out at, fish, gather, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, guard, hang onto, hire, hire on, hold, hold back, hold in, hold on, hold on to, hold up, inhibit, intercept, keep, keep back, keep down, keep in, keep to, occupy, play, play on, play upon, possess, remand, reserve, restrain, retain, save, seize, seize on, stanchion, stick, stick to, stifle, strangle, support, take, take up, tot up, total, uphold, withhold, work out at), telâfi etmek (atone, atone for, compensate, make up, make up for, overcompensate, recoup, recover, recuperate, redress, repair, repay, retrieve, right, undo), para verip kurtarmak, kurtarmak (absolve, bail, bail out, bring off, bring through, clean up, clear, deliver, disabuse, disabuse of, disembarrass, disembody, disengage, extricate, free, get smb. out of a jam, help, keep from, liberate, pull through, recover, relieve, rescue, retrieve, retrieve from, rid, salvage, salve, save, set free, tear away, unfetter, worry smb. out of smth.), günahını bağışlatmak (ransom), fidye verip kurtarmak (ransom), amorti etmek, ödemek (acquit, ante, ante up, atone for, clear, come across with, defray, disburse, discharge, domicil, domicile, domiciliate, fee, foot, fork out, fork over, fork up, give, indemnify, pay, pay for, pay in, pay out, pick up the tab, plonk down, quit, recoup, repay, retire, satisfy, settle, shell out, spring, stump, stump up, to pay, wipe out). (various references)

Ukranian 

відбудовувати (rebuild, rehabilitate), викуповувати (ransom), повертати собі (recover). (various references)

Welsh

prynu (acquire, buy, purchase), gwaredu (deliver, do away with, rid, save). (various references)

redemerant, redemerit, redemi, redemimus, redemisti, redemit, redempta, redemptae, redempti, redempturus, redimam, redimat, redime, redimendi, redimendum, redimendus, redimens, redimentes, redimere, redimeret, redimerunt, redimes, redimet, redimetur, redimi, redimit, redimitur, sarta. (various references)

lysan, onlysan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "redeem": redeemable, redeemed, redeemer, redeemers, redeeming, redeems. (additional references)

Words ending with "redeem": coredeem. (additional references)

Words containing "redeem": coredeemed, coredeeming, coredeems, irredeemable, irredeemably, unredeemable, unredeemed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Redeem" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beddelem, Bredevej, Credem, Erdem, radiem, radome, redeam, redeeem, redeep, redem, reden, redime, redimet, redsen, redue, redy, reede, refem, reree, revem, Rhedae, riddem, Rodebeek, rwe-dea. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: emeer, merde.

-2 letters: deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dree, meed, mere, rede, reed.

-3 letters: dee, eme, ere, med, red, ree, rem.

-4 letters: de, ed, em, er, me, re.

+1 letter: demerge, emender, emerged, emersed, metered, redeems, reedmen.

+2 letters: coredeem, deemster, degermed, demerged, demerger, demerges, depermed, emenders, freedmen, membered, murderee, redeemed, redeemer, rehemmed, remedied, remedies, remelted, remended, remerged, reteamed, tempered.

+3 letters: besmeared, compeered, coredeems, decameter, decimeter, decrement, deemsters, deferment, dekameter, demergers, demerited, determent, determine, embowered, empowered, ephemerid, fermented, meandered, murderees, pedometer, permeated, preempted, premiered, redeemers, redeeming, redreamed, reemerged, reemitted, remediate, remodeled, resembled, resmelted, schmeered, steamered.

+4 letters: attempered, coredeemed, decameters, decimeters, decrements, deferments, dekameters, demergered, demureness, determents, determined, determiner, determines, domineered, embittered, embordered, encumbered, endearment, enumerated, ephemerids, eudiometer, extermined, freedwomen, maneuvered, meperidine, mercerised, mercerized, mesmerised, mesmerized, methedrine, misentered, missteered, mutineered, overemoted, overmelted, pedometers, redeemable, redemanded, redemptive, reembarked, reembodied, reembodies, reemployed, reexamined, referendum, regimented, rehammered, reimmersed, remarketed, remastered, remeasured, remediable, remediated, remediates, remediless, remembered, remodelled, renumbered, rereminded, retempered, semidesert, somerseted, unredeemed, untempered.

+5 letters: coredeeming, debridement, decemvirate, decremental, decremented, deforcement, deliverymen, demergering, denumerable, depravement, derangement, determinate, determiners, dismembered, disremember, distempered, embroidered, embroiderer, endearments, endorsement, ephemerides, epidermises, eudiometers, exodermises, gendarmerie, geometrised, geometrized, greenmailed, homesteader, incremented, intermeddle, intermeshed, legerdemain, makereadies, meperidines, methedrines, millidegree, misreferred, misrendered, moneylender, murderesses, overwhelmed, premeasured, premedieval, premeditate, prenumbered, reassembled, reattempted, recommenced, recommended, recompensed, redetermine, reembroider, reestimated, referendums, remaindered, remoistened, remonetized, remunerated, semideserts, semiretired, somersetted, speedometer, telegrammed, telemetered, unfermented.

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