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redden — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • redeem verb To exchange a voucher, points, or a bond for cash or its stated value.
  • rescue verb To save someone or something from danger, harm, or a difficult situation.
  • retrieve verb To get something back, especially something that was lost, stored, or left somewhere.
  • salvage noun The rescue of a ship, its cargo, or other property from damage or loss, or the property recovered this way.
  • save verb To rescue someone or something from harm or danger.

Senses

redden is used for these senses in English:

  • redeem (transitive) To save, rescue.
  • rescue To save from any violence, danger or evil.
  • rescue (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
  • salvage (transitive, of discarded goods) To put to use.

redeem — full definition

  1. verb To exchange a voucher, points, or a bond for cash or its stated value.
  2. verb To make up for a fault or bad situation, or to restore someone's good reputation.
  3. verb In religious use, to save someone from sin or wrongdoing.

rescue — full definition

  1. verb To save someone or something from danger, harm, or a difficult situation.
  2. noun An act of saving someone or something from danger.

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