Definitions for redeem

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redeem re·deem

Spelling: [ri-deem]

IPA: /rɪˈdim/

Redeem is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in redeem (deeemr).

Definitions for redeem

verb (used with object)

1. to buy or pay off; clear by payment:
2. to buy back, as after a tax sale or a mortgage foreclosure.
3. to recover (something pledged or mortgaged) by payment or other satisfaction:
4. to exchange (bonds, trading stamps, etc.) for money or goods.
5. to convert (paper money) into specie.
6. to discharge or fulfill (a pledge, promise, etc.).
7. to make up for; make amends for; offset (some fault, shortcoming, etc.):
8. to obtain the release or restoration of, as from captivity, by paying a ransom.
9. Theology. to deliver from sin and its consequences by means of a sacrifice offered for the sinner.

Origin of redeem

1375-1425; late Middle English redemen Middle French redimer Latin redimere, equivalent to red- red- + -imere, combining form of emere to purchase (cf. Examples for redeem

And that means it has to potential to redeem Christie—or make his already-hellish 2014 much, much worse.

Sports drinks and coconut water, which is lower in sugar, can also redeem electrolytes lost while drinking, says White.

But as to doing what he wills with a word—see what it cost him to redeem the world!

In all of this lies the chance, also, for FIFA to redeem itself.

Now, thanks to a military man he fired, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, he has a chance to redeem himself.

I reject the monstrous theory that while a man may redeem the past, a woman never can.

And by our dreams and labors we will redeem the promise of America in the 21st century.

Offices which are but pledges that we are expected to redeem.

Is it possible to do nothing to redeem these poor people, father, from captivity?

Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) may have drawn wide attention and praise for their redeem Act.