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
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
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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