Ransom synonyms

răn'səm

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release
To set free from confinement or bondage:
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payment
The definition of a payment is all or part of what is owed by someone.
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price
The cost at which something is obtained:
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payoff
The discharge of a debt or obligation.
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rescue
To deliver by arms, notably from a siege
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deliver
To bring or transport something to its destination.
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recover
To regain the use of (a faculty) or be restored to (a normal or usual condition):
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regain
To manage to reach again:
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emancipate
To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
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unchain
To remove chains from; to free; to liberate.
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unfetter
To free from restraints or inhibitions.
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buy-off
To pay off, convince to refrain etc. by corrupt payment or other service
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extricate
(Rare) To free from intricacies or perplexity
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reprieve
To prevent the imposition of a scheduled or expected punishment, especially temporarily.
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liberate
(Chem.) To free from combination in a compound
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save
(Theol.) To deliver from sin and its penalties
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bribe (related)
Money or some other benefit given to a person in power, especially a public official, in an effort to cause the person to take a particular action.
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free (related)
Free means to release or let go.
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redeem (related)
To save, rescue
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atone
(Proscribed) To clear (someone else) of wrongdoing, especially by standing as an equivalent.
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expiate
To make amends or reparation for; atone for:
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retrieve
To rescue or save:
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ransom money
money demanded for the return of a captured person
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revindication
An act of revindicating.
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hostage (related)
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bounty (related)
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redemption money
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reoccupation
(Uncountable) The condition of being reoccupied
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Find another word for ransom. In this page you can discover 29 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ransom, like: release, payment, price, payoff, rescue, deliver, recover, regain, emancipate, unchain and unfetter.
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Ransom Sentence Examples

  • To pay for Richard's ransom, he had already been compelled to tax personal property, the first instance of such taxation for secular purposes.

  • There are lots of unsolved cases, kidnappings for ransom too.

  • An undisclosed ransom demand was made.

  • At last the Gauls consented to accept a ransom of a thousand pounds of gold.

  • The whole of his ransom was never paid, and his absurdities and misfortunes gave the Estates opportunity to strengthen their constitutional position.

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