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Definition of Rescue
1. Verb. Free from harm or evil.
Specialized synonyms: Relieve, Salvage, Salve, Save, Reprieve
Generic synonyms: Bring Through, Carry Through, Pull Through, Save
Derivative terms: Deliverance, Deliverer, Delivery, Rescuer
2. Noun. Recovery or preservation from loss or danger. "A surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
Generic synonyms: Recovery, Retrieval
Specialized synonyms: Lifesaving, Redemption, Salvation, Reclamation, Reformation, Salvage, Salvage, Salvation, Search And Rescue Mission
Derivative terms: Deliver, Deliver
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
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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.