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ransom
1[ ran-suhm ]
noun
- the redemption of a prisoner or kidnapped person, of captured goods, etc., for a price.
Synonyms: release, liberation, deliverance
- the sum or price paid or demanded.
- a means of deliverance or rescue from punishment for sin, especially the payment of a redemptive fine.
verb (used with object)
- to redeem from captivity, bondage, detention, etc., by paying a demanded price.
- to release or restore on receipt of a ransom.
- to deliver or redeem from punishment for sin.
Ransom
2[ ran-suhm ]
noun
- John Crowe [kroh], 1888–1974, U.S. poet, critic, and teacher.
Ransom
1/ ˈrænsəm /
noun
- RansomJohn Crowe18881974MUSWRITING: poetWRITING: critic John Crowe . 1888–1974, US poet and critic
ransom
2/ ˈrænsəm /
noun
- the release of captured prisoners, property, etc, on payment of a stipulated price
- the price demanded or stipulated for such a release
- rescue or redemption of any kind
- hold to ransom
- to keep (prisoners, property, etc) in confinement until payment for their release is made or received
- to attempt to force (a person or persons) to comply with one's demands
- a king's ransoma very large amount of money or valuables
verb
- to pay a stipulated price and so obtain the release of (prisoners, property, etc)
- to set free (prisoners, property, etc) upon receiving the payment demanded
- to redeem; rescue
Christ ransomed men from sin
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Derived Forms
- ˈransomer, noun
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Other Words From
- ransom·er noun
- un·ransomed adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ransom1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ransom1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
“I noticed something,” I say to Marvin, feeling a little like Ransom Stoddard, attorney at law.
At the same time, we should expect a rise in kidnapping for ransom.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said that the bureau fully complies with U.S. policy as it relates to ransom payments.
European governments, for their part, have long agreed to pay groups like ISIS ransom money.
Where do you think the ransom money for Western hostages is going?
For ten years now had these been riding and raiding around the walls, pillaging and holding to ransom.
The second were ruffians who forced their victims to pay ransom by holding their feet in fires.
The Abbot Guilbert offers three hundred silver sous for his ransom.
He quickly pointed out Bezenecq the Rich as a townsman from whom it would be easy to extract a big ransom.
Have I not offered you three hundred gold sous for my ransom, Count of Plouernel?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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