redeem > define
verb
- Save from sins.
- Restore the honor or worth of.
- To turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange.
- Exchange or buy back for money; under threat.
- synonyms: ransom
- Pay off (loans or promissory notes.
- synonyms: pay off
- Convert into cash; of commercial papers. .
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
- (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.
- (v.t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
- (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 recall, as an estate or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
- (v.t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
- (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.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary