Definitions for redeeming

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redeeming re·deem·ing

Spelling: [ri-dee-ming]

IPA: /rɪˈdi mɪŋ/

Redeeming is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in redeeming (deeegimnr).

Definitions for redeeming

adjective

1. offsetting or counterbalancing some fault, defect, or the like:

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 redeeming

First recorded in 1745-55; redeem + -ing²

Examples for redeeming

If there was one redeeming feature about the man I might be uneasy.

I look to that time and see woman the redeeming power of the world.

But, as Travis Williams puts it, “Every case has a redeeming quality, not necessarily every person.”

To Ernest this was the one redeeming touch to the desert's austerity.

But what about stuff that has no obvious redeeming qualities to it?

This was probably the most redeeming part of the three-hour Sound of Music special on NBC.

He has no redeeming or (even complicating) qualities—no depths to plumb, no angles to survey, no gray areas to explore.

The argument might go like this: Jews are sovereign, have wealth, and are fully capable of “redeeming” the Temple Mount.

But he had not one redeeming trait of character to justify his existence.

In that way only it seemed to me I could keep my hold on the redeeming facts of life.