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"text": "They were held for two million dollars ransom.",
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"text": "They were held to ransom.",
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"ref": "1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued",
"text": "His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.",
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"ref": "2010, Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad",
"text": "As rich as was the ransom Priam paid for Hektor, Hermes says, his remaining sons at Troy “'would give three times as much ransom / for you, who are alive, were Atreus' son Agamemnon / to recognize you.'”",
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"word": "გამოსასყიდი"
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"1": "en",
"2": "redemption"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of redemption",
"name": "doublet"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From the Middle English ransoun, from the Old French raençon, from stem of Latin redemptio. Entered English ca. the 13th century. Doublet of redemption.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ransoms",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "ransoming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "ransomed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ransomed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ransom (third-person singular simple present ransoms, present participle ransoming, simple past and past participle ransomed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"ran‧som"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "bail"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties."
],
"links": [
[
"deliver",
"deliver"
],
[
"sin",
"sin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to ransom prisoners from an enemy",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment."
],
"links": [
[
"captivity",
"captivity"
],
[
"punishment",
"punishment"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017, Bruce Oliver Newsome, James W. Stewart, Aarefah Mosavi, Countering New(est) Terrorism: Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence — Assessing, Negotiating, and Assaulting, CRC Press",
"text": "Terrorists will continue to hold few detainees in undisclosed locations in order to ransom them for money or some other material profit, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To exact a ransom (payment) in exchange for the freedom of."
],
"links": [
[
"exact",
"exact"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɹænsəm/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ransom.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ransom.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ransom.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ransom.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ransom.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "iftadā",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "اِفْتَدَى"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "fadā",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "فَدَى"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otkupvam",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "откупвам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "redimir"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "rescatar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "贖回"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shúhuí",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "赎回"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "贖身"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shúshēn",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "赎身"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vykoupit"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "elaĉeti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "maksaa lunnaat"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "rançonner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "(mit Lösegeld) freikaufen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "auslösen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "loskaufen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lytróno",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "λυτρώνω"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lutróomai",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "λυτρόομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lutróō",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "λυτρόω"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "fuascail"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "redimō"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "menebus"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odkupywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odkupić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "pagar resgate"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vykupátʹ",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "выкупа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "výkupitʹ",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "вы́купить"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "откупити"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "otkupiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "rescatar"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to pay a price to set someone free",
"word": "fidia"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "plaštam otkup",
"sense": "to exact a ransom for, or a payment on",
"word": "плащам откуп"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to exact a ransom for, or a payment on",
"word": "auspressen"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lutróō",
"sense": "to exact a ransom for, or a payment on",
"word": "λυτρόω"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"ransom"
],
"word": "ransom"
}
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