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redeem

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

To compensate for, restore, or make amends for past errors; a central moral and spiritual theme in theological and epic poetry.

Detailed Definition
In older literary usage, redeem can mean to recover, justify, or make amends for something lost or wrong. Here it suggests that memory will honor and restore the meaning of the soldiers’ deed.
Example
Example in poetry:
“That memory may their deed redeem” uses redeem as restore worth or save from blame; “No song can redeem the harm already done” shows moral limits; “The rain redeemed the garden after drought” gives a restorative, secular sense; “She tried to redeem the lost afternoon by planting bulbs” uses the word for making amends or recovering value
Additional Notes
In this line, “redeem” is used in a more elevated, less everyday sense that may prompt readers to look twice.; Found in the poem, Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Also Known As
restore reclaim salvage recover expiate
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