Redeem

[rɪ'diːm] or [rɪ'dim]

解释:

(verb.) convert into cash; of commercial papers.

(verb.) pay off (loans or promissory notes).

(verb.) to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange.

(verb.) restore the honor or worth of.

手打:谢莉--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.

(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 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 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.

(v. t.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law.

(v. t.) To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.

(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.

海丝特编辑

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Repurchase, buy back.[2]. Ransom, free, liberate, deliver, rescue, recover, save.[3]. Compensate, make amends for, atone for.[4]. Fulfil, keep, discharge, make good.

整理:罗伯塔

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Repurchase, regain, retrieve, make_amends_for, recompense, ransom, liberate,rescue, recover, satisfy, fulfil, discharge

ANT:Pledge, lose, forfeit, abandon, betray, surrender, sacrifice

丹尼尔编辑

解释:

v.t. to ransom: to relieve from captivity by a price: to rescue deliver: to pay the penalty of: to atone for: to perform as a promise: to improve put to the best advantage: to recover as a pledge.—adj. Redeem′able that may be redeemed.—ns. Redeem′ableness; Redeem′er one who redeems or ransoms esp. Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world.—adjs. Redeem′ing saving: good as exceptional to what is bad; Redeem′less incurable; Redemp′tive pertaining to redemption: serving or tending to redeem; Redemp′tory serving to redeem: paid for ransom.

编辑:利瓦伊