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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

赎回

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shúhuí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Redeem/rɪˈdiːm/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2850 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他试图通过努力来赎回自己的过错。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To compensate for the bad aspects of something; to gain or regain possession of something in exchange for payment.

    "He managed to redeem himself with a brilliant performance in the second half."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'redimere', meaning 'to buy back' (from 're-' back + 'emere' to buy). It entered the English language during the Middle English period via Old French 'redemer', initially retaining religious connotations of buying back souls before expanding into commercial and general senses of compensation or exchange.

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