Synonym: reclaim, recover, redeem, regain, retrieve. Similar words: hansom, winsome, insomnia, insomniac, by means of, by fair means or foul, transit, transfer. Meaning: ['rænsəm] 
n. 1. money demanded for the return of a captured person 2. payment for the release of someone 3. the act of freeing from captivity or punishment. v. exchange or buy back for money; under threat.
n. 1. money demanded for the return of a captured person 2. payment for the release of someone 3. the act of freeing from captivity or punishment. v. exchange or buy back for money; under threat. 
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31. They are holding her prisoner and demanding a large ransom.
32. You are our prisoner now and we won't release you until a ransom is paid.
33. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of 10000 for his release.
34. Newley might have told Tolby about the ransom demand.
35. There has been no ransom demand.
36. By his behaviour Yeltsin has held Clinton to ransom.
37. The letters were demanded as ransom.
38. Was the package or packet of ransom money bugged?
39. Because Noddy won't pay the ransom.
40. I made the ransom demands, it said.
41. He's got the ransom money.
42. They are all about kidnapping and about ransom demands.
43. The kidnappers have repeated their demand for ransom.
44. A king's ransom in a leather belt.
45. The double Derby-winner is believed to have been killed after ransom demands were issued.
46. Without some such law the rich could hold the poor to ransom.
47. A pied-piper's trail of opportunity discarded, needless abasement endured,(www.Sentencedict.com) and a grievous ransom paid in blood and treasure.
48. Note from Heron's Liberation Front demanding ransom for return of Gnome.
49. Ransom hoped to be reconciled with his wife and children.
50. What kind of kidnapper would sit down and write a three-page ransom note demanding a paltry $ 118, 000?
51. It wouldn't matter if you'd been promised a king's ransom if you achieved a lucky jump to the scorpion.
52. His wife spent all their savings on paying ransom demands.
53. Then came her horrifying eight-day ordeal, during which Sams wrote to her employers demanding ￡175,000 ransom.
54. It attacks the foundations of a free society, encouraging those with industrial or commercial muscle to hold others to ransom.
55. Police sources revealed earlier that the three-page ransom note had been handwritten on paper from a legal pad found in the home.
56. The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously.
57. Although they said they would demand a ransom of $ 5m for each man, they never did.
58. Sams has pleaded guilty to kidnapping Stephanie, unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding a ￡175,000 ransom.
59. Instead, they continue to maintain their position by holding the world to economic and military ransom.
60. Within hours the kid napper demanded a ransom of ￡175,000 from estate agents Shipways.
More similar words: hansom, winsome, insomnia, insomniac, by means of, by fair means or foul, transit, transfer, transform, transmit, transfuse, transmute, translate, transpire, transport, transient, transcend, transpose, transplant, transfixed, transparent, transcribe, transgress, transience, transition, transcript, transparency, translucent, transgender, transmitted.