rescue
Plural: rescues
Noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- A liberation, freeing.
- The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- A rescuee.
Verb
Verb Forms: rescued, rescuing, rescues
- To save someone or something from a dangerous situation.
- free from harm or evil
- take forcibly from legal custody
- "rescue prisoners"
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
- To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
- 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.
- To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
- To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
- To adopt (an animal).
Examples
- He managed to rescue his low-scoring game with a well-placed, high-value word.
- I rescued a set of antique dining chairs.
- The cook rescued the sauce after it began to curdle.
- The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues.
- The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
- The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
- to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
- Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“I shake”).
Synonyms
deliver, deliverance, delivery, saving, free, liberate, pull out of the fire, recapture, redeem, release, retake, save
Scrabble Score: 8
rescue: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrescue: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rescue: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary