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Definition of Rescue

1. Verb. Free from harm or evil.

2. Noun. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. "A surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

3. Verb. Take forcibly from legal custody. "Rescue prisoners"

Definition of Rescue

1. 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.

2. n. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

Definition of Rescue

1. Proper noun. A city in California (zip code 95672) ¹

2. Verb. To save from any violence, danger or evil. ¹

3. Verb. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. ¹

4. Verb. To recover forcibly ¹

5. Verb. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege ¹

6. Verb. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. ¹

7. Verb. ¹

8. Noun. An act or episode of rescuing, saving. ¹

9. Noun. A liberation, freeing. ¹

10. Noun. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril ¹

11. Noun. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded ¹

12. Noun. A rescuee. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rescue

1. to free from danger [v -CUED, -CUING, -CUES]

Medical Definition of Rescue

1. 1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. "Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot." (Shak) 2. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. "The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods." (Blackstone) Rescue grass. [Etymol. Uncertain. A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States. Origin: From Rescue,; cf. Rescous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rescue

rescrambled rescrambles rescrambling rescreen rescreened rescreening rescreens rescript rescripted rescripting

rescription rescriptive rescriptively rescripts rescuable rescue (current term) rescue dog rescue dogs rescue equipment rescue mission

rescue missions rescue operation rescue party rescue work rescued rescuee rescuees rescueless rescueman rescuemen

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