Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being rescued.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective That may be rescued.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That can be rescued or recovered.

Etymologies

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rescue +β€Ž -able

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Examples

  • Fianna Fail minister Seamus Brennan feels the constitution is still "rescuable" and says Ireland should not make a decision on the issue until the European Council has met.

    Mixed messages Richard 2005

  • From a distance, Leigh says she can see how Aaron became β€œone more rescuable project,” like her father and younger brother before him, who basically fell apart after her mother died, leaving Leigh as the practical and emotional center of the family.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • Hmmm. The first part is rescuable: You could reflect on being lost in a moment and say I did not notice that there were people passing me but yet there must have been passersby for it was a busy street.

    Bart Motes: U2's No Line on the Horizon: Mostly Meandering Mediocrity 2009

  • The decline into "social housing" began in the 1960s when councils committed to "slum clearance" (often of perfectly sound or easily-rescuable stock) to make way for huge system-built estates.

    The Guardian World News Deborah Orr 2010

  • Power-up icons and rescuable humans are too small to discern on screen-something that could easily be fixed with redrawn sprites-the action is intense but a little under ideally smooth, and the music could surely be better.

    iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond 2009

  • As long as she was rescuable and not suffering any permanent damage, I don't think I'd call it abuse sufficient to remove a child from the home.

    Latest Articles Tristate.com 2009

  • NOTE: Certain exceptions are only rescuable from the ApplicationController class, as they are raised before the controller gets initialized and the action gets executed.

    LearnHub Activities 2008

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