Crossword-Solution: RANSOM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ransom | n. | The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom. |
| Ransom | n. | The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit. |
| Ransom | n. | A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. |
| Ransom | n. | To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy. |
| Ransom | n. | To exact a ransom for, or a payment on. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RANSOM | anagram | MANORS, MORANS, NOARMS, NORMAS, ONMARS, RAMONS, RAMSON, ROMANS |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with RANSOM (5)
Say Heav’nly Powers, where shall we find such love, Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Mans mortal crime, and just th’ unjust to save, Dwels in all Heaven charitie so deare? He ask’d, but all the Heav’nly Quire stood mute, And silence was in Heav’n: on mans behalf Patron or Intercessor none appeerd, Much less that durst upon his own head draw The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set.
Why can’t a body take a club and ransom them as soon as they get here?” “Because it ain’t in the books so—that’s why.
And so they marched out of the village of the Waziri, and on the shoulders of their slaves was the ivory ransom of a score of kings.
Since you disdain to accept from him any share of the ransom at which you have rated the arms of the other knights, I must leave his armour and his horse here, being well assured that he will never deign to mount the one nor wear the other.” “You have spoken well, good squire,” said the Disinherited Knight, “well and boldly, as it beseemeth him to speak who answers for an absent master.
The child must be his little Jack; but who could the woman be—and the man? Was it possible that one of Rokoff’s confederates had conspired with some woman—who had accompanied the Russian—to steal the baby from him? If this was the case, they had doubtless purposed returning the child to civilization and there either claiming a reward or holding the little prisoner for ransom.
Quotes with RANSOM (3)
Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again.“Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper’s.” Venom raised an eyebrow.“You have hair prettier than one of Astaad’s concubines.” Ransom gave the vampire the finger. Venom grinned.
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…
By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 133 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).