Rescue

/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/ · verb

Meaning

To save from any violence, danger or evil..

Definitions by Sense

1. To save from any violence, danger or evil.
2. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
3. To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
4. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
5. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
6. (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
7. To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
8. To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.

Example Sentences

The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.

Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.

The students’ final mission was their longest: a trip across the Nile to the city of Omdurman, at the request of Rwandan diplomats, to rescue a woman who, unlike the first they rescued, really was pregnant.

to rescue a prisoner from the enemy

Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less.

Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.

Over the course of the season, on 15 occasions the team had rescued a draw or better after falling behind, such that even against Juventus, there was an air of inevitability about the comeback.

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Word Forms

• rescues
• rescuing
• rescued

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