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rescue
v. save from harm, deliver from danger, free from risk
 
n. deliverance, act of saving from danger or injury, act of freeing from risk


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Rescue
Rescue refers to operations that usually involve the saving of life, or prevention of injury. Tools used might include search dogssearch and rescue horseshelicopters, and the "Jaws of Life" and other hydraulic cutting and spreading tools used to extricate individuals from wrecked vehicles. Rescue operations are sometimes supported by special vehicles such as fire department's or EMS Heavy rescue vehicle.
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Rescue!
Rescue! is a Macintosh shareware computer game first released in April 1993 by Tom Spreen. Based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, it combined arcade-style action with strategy. The game's popularity drew the attention of Paramount, forcing Spreen to remove Star Trek-specific elements beginning with version 2.0.2.
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rescue
Noun
1. recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
(synonym) deliverance, delivery, saving
(hypernym) recovery, retrieval
(hyponym) lifesaving
(derivation) deliver
Verb
1. free from harm or evil
(synonym) deliver
(hypernym) save, carry through, pull through, bring through
(hyponym) salvage, salve, relieve, save
(derivation) deliverance, delivery, saving
2. take forcibly from legal custody; "rescue prisoners"
(hypernym) take


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Rescue
(v.)
The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
  
 
(v.)
The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
  
 
(v.)
The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
  
 
(v.)
The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
  
 
(v. t.)
To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
  

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Rescue
Taking and setting at liberty, against the law, either goods or imprisoned persons. - (read more on Rescue)
  


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