Dictionary Entry
ransom
ransom is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom.
- 2noun
The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit.
- 3noun
A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
- 4noun
To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
- 5noun
To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
- 6noun
the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
- 7noun
payment for the release of someone
- 8noun
money demanded for the return of a captured person
- 9verb
exchange or buy back for money; under threat
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