redeem

redeem is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase. Face value is 9 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 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
2. transitive verb. To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. transitive verb. 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.
5. transitive verb. Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.
6. transitive verb. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
7. transitive verb. 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.
8. verb. convert into cash; of commercial papers
9. verb. pay off (loans or promissory notes)
10. verb. exchange or buy back for money; under threat

    Synonyms: ransom

11. verb. to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
12. verb. restore the honor or worth of
13. verb. save from sins

    Synonyms: deliver, save

Synonyms

ransom, deliver, save

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in redeem:

deemer, meered, remede

Common word forms

redeems, redeemed, redeemer, redeeming, redeemable, redeemless

Words from these letters

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