v. t. | 1. | To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase. |
| 2. | (Law) To recall, as an estate, or to regain, as mortgaged property, by paying what may be due by force of the mortgage. |
| 3. | 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. |
| 4. | (Theol.) Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. |
| 5. | To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises. |
| 6. | 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. |