Redeem

Definition

redeem /r'di:m/ v ၁။ (က) အဖတ္ဆယ္သည္။ The acting was not good enough to redeem the awfulness of the play. ❍ He redeemed his earlier poor performance by scoring two excellent goals. ❍ The sole redeeming feature of this job is the good salary. (ခ) ~ oneself ရာဇဝင္ေႂကြး ဆပ္သည္။ အဖတ္ဆယ္သည္။ He has a chance to redeem himself in tonight's match. ၂။ (က) ~ sth (from sb/sth) (ေပါင္ႏွံထားသည္ကို) ျပန္ေရြးသည္။ I redeemed my watch (from the pawn shop). (ခ) အေႂကြးဆပ္သည္။ redeem a mortgage/loan. (ဂ) အစုရွယ္ရာ၊ ျဖတ္ပိုင္း(ကူပြန္)ျဖင့္ ေငြျပန္အမ္းယူသည္။ ကူပြန္ျဖင့္တန္ဖိုးသင့္ဝယ္သည္။ This coupon can be redeemed at any of our branches. ၃။ ~ sb (from sth) (ခရစ္ယာန္) အျပစ္မွ ေရြးႏုတ္ကယ္တင္သည္။ ❏ redeemable /-ǝbl/ adj ~ (against sth) တန္ဖိုးသင့္၍ သံုးစြဲ၊ အမ္းယူႏိုင္ေသာ (ကူပြန္၊ ျဖတ္ပိုင္း)။ gift tokens redeemable at any garden centre ❍ These vouchers are redeemable against any holiday listed in the brochure. ❏ the Redeemer n [sing] ေယ႐ႈခရစ္ေတာ္။

Examples

1. A difficult year for the company was redeemed by one very successful deal.
2. [redeeming feature] : Smith’s only redeeming feature is that he knows his job.
3. She couldn’t afford to redeem her wedding ring from the pawnbroker.
4. They will redeem their debts over a period of years.