ransoming
present participle ofransom
ransom
verb[T]
uk/ˈræn.səm/us/ˈræn.səm/topaymoneyinorderto set someonefree:
Herfatherransomed herfora milliondollars.
Paying money
- ante up (something)
- balance
- burn a hole insomeone'spocketidiom
- charge
- chargeable
- co-finance
- compensate
- congestion charge
- cough
- foot
- lash
- paid
- payer
- prepaid
- settle up
- sink intosomething
- spender
- splash out(something)
- spring forsomething
- stretch tosomething
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
These soldiers were preferred, as there would be an opportunity ofransomingthem when taken prisoners at a lower price.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The fox then warned the boy againstransominganyone with the money.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It was claimed that most were dressed much the same as common soldiers and therefore were not recognised as being worthransoming.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But theransominghad finally gone too far.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They also did a brisk business inransomingsome of the captives.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Sometime later, she acts as the captain of a pirate ship, doing everything from raiding other ships toransominghostages.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He devoted himself to fighting paganism,ransomingcaptives and visiting rural districts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The practice ofransominghad long been customary in medieval wars and there was no reason to forgo its pecuniary advantages in this conflict.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While performing these missions, he makes moves to take sole possession of the illicitransomingfunds, but is eliminated.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Apart from being conspicuously virtuous, he showed a practical turn in building aqueducts andransomingcaptives, as well as building new churches and restoring monasteries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.What we did learn is this it's a hostage that's worthransoming.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The incident illustrates the importance ofransomingnoble captives, as a means of political manipulation, increasing one's own revenues and exhausting the resources of one's foes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Finally, in this context a form of more regular re-recruitment should be mentioned that in practice had some quantitative importance: theransomingof prisoners of war.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Shaler took out $75,000 in specie and then divested the packet afterransomingher for $8000.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is endangered by a master criminal whose intention is not a simple hijacking andransomingof the wealthy hostages on board.
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