redeem
verb (used with object)
to make up for; make amends for; offset (some fault, shortcoming, etc.).
were redeeming
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past progressiveof redeem.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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There were redeeming features of the 2008 race, including McCain’s rebuke to a New Hampshire voter who called Obama an Arab.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2018
At week's end nervous investors were redeeming Magellan shares at a rate 75% faster than that of the previous week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the conspirators themselves there were redeeming shades.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
They carried us to Algiers, where I found that the fathers of the Most Holy Trinity were redeeming Christian slaves.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Early and late worked Morgan, battling with the wild vines and beautiful growths that seemed to be always trying to make the garden we were redeeming from the wilderness come back to its former state.
From Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah by W.T. Smith
