Sample Sentences for
redeem
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redeem as in:  its main redeeming quality is...

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Our dog is dirty, noisy, and ill-behaved, but her redeeming quality is that she is so loving.
redeeming = thing that makes up for bad things
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    It's been a terrible season, but the team has a shot at redemption if they can beat their cross-town rival.
    redemption = making up for bad things
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    The movie, Shawshank Redemption, depicts redemption in many ways. The injustice that permits the corrupt prison warden to thrive is made up when he is arrested. Andy's escape from prison with the warden's ill-gotten gains helps to make up for his false imprisonment. And Andy makes up for having failed his wife by helping others generally and in particular by saving Red.
    redemption = to make up for something bad
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    The only way to redeem yourself is to enlist after you sell your boats.  (source)
    redeem = make up for prior actions
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    When I decamped from Boulder for Alaska, my head swimming with visions of glory and redemption on the Devils Thumb, it didn't occur to me that I might be bound by the same cause-and-effect relationships that governed the actions of others.  (source)
    redemption = making up for something bad
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    She determined to redeem her error so far as it might yet be possible.  (source)
    redeem = make up for (something bad)
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    In his dying days, Mac had redeemed himself.  (source)
    redeemed = made up for anything bad
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    They're cute, and they have redeeming social value.  (source)
    redeeming = making up for something bad
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    This is the moment that redeems her years of waiting.†  (source)
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    Unredeemed by shared tenderness, the time was spent in laborious gropings, pullings, yankings and jerkings.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unredeemed means not and reverses the meaning of redeemed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    O country lost, and gods redeem'd in vain, If still in endless exile we remain!†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled redeemed.
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    For as much therefore, as he that Redeemeth, hath no title to the Thing Redeemed, before the Redemption, and Ransome paid; and this Ransome was the Death of the Redeemer; it is manifest, that our Saviour (as man) was not King of those that he Redeemed, before hee suffered death; that is, during that time hee conversed bodily on the Earth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She redeemeth" in older English, today we say "She redeems."
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    And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.  (source)
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    Thus not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were ineffectual.  (source)
    redeem = save
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redeem as in:  redeem the coupon

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    Points earned with the credit card can be redeemed for free airline tickets and other products.
    redeemed = exchanged
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    In it I've included information about how to redeem the free plane tickets and info about our hotel and schedule for the days we are in D.C.  (source)
    redeem = exchange
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    One afternoon when Brian and I had come home to an empty fridge, we went out to the alley behind the house looking for bottles to redeem.  (source)
    redeem = exchange (for money)
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    Is it too much to ask that I meet my Redeemer with a healthy nose?†  (source)
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    There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irredeemable means not and reverses the meaning of redeemable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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    It was rightly guessed that I could not forbear to redeem the Arkenstone, the treasure of my house.  (source)
    redeem = regain possession
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    Accept, dear Madam, this token of my reverence for your courage and do not think that your sacrifice has been in vain, for this ring has been redeemed at ten times its value.  (source)
    redeemed = exchanged (for money)
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    One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man.†  (source)
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    If he possesses an unusual share of native energy, or the enervating magic of place do not operate too long upon him, his forfeited powers may be redeemable.  (source)
    redeemable = able to be recovered
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    She was conscious of that gulf, but not as unredeemable alteration in herself.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unredeemable means not and reverses the meaning of redeemable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    When she's not reading, Carol says, she's gathering up bottles and cans across Skid Row and taking them to a redemption center.  (source)
    redemption = exchange (for cash)
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    Babysitting and tutoring and doing other kids' homework and mowing lawns and redeeming bottles and selling scrap metal didn't count.  (source)
    redeeming = exchanging (for money)
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    I recognized the Prelude, from Handel's Messiah—"I know that my Redeemer liveth."†  (source)
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