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noun

redemption money, price, payment, payoff*; see bribe.

verb

release, rescue, deliver, recover, regain, emancipate, unchain, unfetter, buy off, extricate, reprieve, liberate, save; see also free 1, redeem 1, rescue 1, 2. See syn. study at rescue.

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