Redeem is defined as to buy or get something back, pay off a loan, exchange one thing for another or convert into cash.
(verb)See redeem in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb
Origin: LME redemen < MFr redimer < L redimere < re(d)-, back + emere, to get, buy < IE base *em-, to take > Lith imù, OSlav imǫ, to take
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See redeem in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb re·deemed, re·deem·ing, re·deems
Origin:
Origin: Middle English redemen
Origin: , from Old French redimer
Origin: , from Latin redimere
Origin: : re-, red-, re-
Origin: + emere, to buy; see em- in Indo-European roots
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