Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to redeem
Participle: redeemed
Gerund: redeeming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | redeem |
| you | redeem |
| he;she;it | redeems |
| we | redeem |
| you | redeem |
| they | redeem |
Perfect
| I | have redeemed |
| you | have redeemed |
| he;she;it | has redeemed |
| we | have redeemed |
| you | have redeemed |
| they | have redeemed |
Past
| I | redeemed |
| you | redeemed |
| he;she;it | redeemed |
| we | redeemed |
| you | redeemed |
| they | redeemed |
Pluperfect
| I | had redeemed |
| you | had redeemed |
| he;she;it | had redeemed |
| we | had redeemed |
| you | had redeemed |
| they | had redeemed |
Future
| I | will redeem |
| you | will redeem |
| he;she;it | will redeem |
| we | will redeem |
| you | will redeem |
| they | will redeem |
Future Perfect
| I | will have redeemed |
| you | will have redeemed |
| he;she;it | will have redeemed |
| we | will have redeemed |
| you | will have redeemed |
| they | will have redeemed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | redeem |
| you | redeem |
| he;she;it | redeem |
| we | redeem |
| you | redeem |
| they | redeem |
Perfect
| I | have redeemed |
| you | have redeemed |
| he;she;it | have redeemed |
| we | have redeemed |
| you | have redeemed |
| they | have redeemed |
Imperfect
| I | redeemed |
| you | redeemed |
| he;she;it | redeemed |
| we | redeemed |
| you | redeemed |
| they | redeemed |
Pluperfect
| I | had redeemed |
| you | had redeemed |
| he;she;it | had redeemed |
| we | had redeemed |
| you | had redeemed |
| they | had redeemed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would redeem |
| you | would redeem |
| he;she;it | would redeem |
| we | would redeem |
| you | would redeem |
| they | would redeem |
Perfect
| I | would have redeemed |
| you | would have redeemed |
| he;she;it | would have redeemed |
| we | would have redeemed |
| you | would have redeemed |
| they | would have redeemed |
Imperative
| you | redeem |
| we | Let's redeem |
| you | redeem |
Verbs conjugated like 'redeem'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'redeem'
bedeem,
addeem,
adeem,
beseem,
beteem,
coredeem,
deem,
foredeem,
redden,
rede,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- recover ownership
- buy back, repurchase
- to make reparation for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency
- abide, acquit, answer, answer for, assoil, atone, expiate, make amends, propitiate, repair, reparate
- recover
- reclaim, retrieve, repurchase, restore, ransom
- liberate
- free, deliver, rescue, save, ransom
Antonyms
- recover
- relapse, degenerate, deteriorate, impair
- liberate
- bind, chain, confine, immure
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin red-
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti
6. Proto-Italic *emō
7. Latin emō
8. Latin redimōbor.
9. Old French redimerbor.
10. Middle English redemen
11. English redeem
12. From Middle English redemen, modified from Old French redimer, from Latin redimō (“release; obviate; atone for”), itself from red- (“back; again”) + emō (“buy; gain, take, procure”). See: Middle English '
redemen', Latin '
redimō'.
Sample Sentences
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“ It's very important he should write, ” said Eva, “ because his mistress is going to send down money to redeem him, you know, papa; he told me they told him so. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Something within the silent black man answered _No ! _ and, as if repeated by an invisible voice, came the words of an old prophetic scroll, as Eva had often read them to him,—“Fear not ! for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by name. Thou art MINE ! ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] “ No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation.”—_Curran_.[1 ]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] of Miss Ophelia's letter to his Kentucky friends, and would pray earnestly that God would send him deliverance. And then he would watch, day after day, in the vague hope of seeing somebody sent to redeem him; and, when nobody came, he would crush back to his soul bitter thoughts,—that it was vain to serve God, that God had forgotten him. He sometimes saw Cassy; and sometimes, when summoned to the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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He sat his basket down by the row, and, looking up, said, “ Into thy hands I commend my spirit ! Thou hast redeemed me, oh Lord God of truth ! ” and then quietly yielded himself to the rough, brutal grasp with which Quimbo seized him.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] was bought by a good and generous man. He took me with him to the West Indies, set me free, and married me. It is but lately that he died; and I was going up to Kentucky, to see if I could find and redeem my brother. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] fell into the slave-trader's fangs, and was doomed for the New Orleans market. The hearts of those that saw her were touched with pity for her fate. They offered eighteen hundred dollars to redeem her; and some there were who offered to give, that would not have much left after the gift; but the fiend of a slave-trader was inexorable. She was despatched to New Orleans; but, when about half [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] dresses and fine furniture they would have. ‘Yes, ’ she said, ‘that may do very well in this life, but what will become of them in the next ? ’ They too were sent to New Orleans; but were afterwards redeemed, at an enormous ransom, and brought back. ” Is it not plain, from this, that the histories of Emmeline and Cassy may have many counterparts ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] an injustice ? Christians ! every time that you pray that the kingdom of Christ may come, can you forget that prophecy associates, in dread fellowship, the _day of vengeance_ with the year of his redeemed ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)