See ransom in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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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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"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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