Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to be free from danger, imprisonment, or difficulty; save. synonym: save.
- transitive verb Law To remove (a person or property) from legal custody by force, in violation of the law.
- noun An act of rescuing; a deliverance.
- noun Law The criminal offense of removing a person or property.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; liberate from actual restraint; remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil: as, to
rescue seamen from destruction by shipwreck. - In law, to liberate or take by forcible or illegal means from lawful custody: as, to
rescue a prisoner from a constable. - To go to the rescue.
- noun The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, danger, or any evil.
- noun In law, the forcible or illegal taking of a person or thing out of the custody of the law.
- noun Synonyms Release, liberation, extrication, redemption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb 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
- noun The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
- noun The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
- noun The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
- noun The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
- noun (Bot.) A tall grass (
Ceratochloa unioloides ) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
save from anyviolence ,danger orevil . - verb To
free orliberate fromconfinement or other physicalrestraint . - verb To
recover forcibly - verb To
deliver by arms, notably from asiege - verb figuratively To
remove orwithdraw from a state of exposure to evil andsin . - noun An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- noun A
liberation , freeing. - noun The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
- noun A special airliner
flight to bring home passengers who are stranded - noun A
rescuee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb free from harm or evil
- verb take forcibly from legal custody
- noun recovery or preservation from loss or danger
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Banks will not lend in this climate of uncertainty when the term rescue has morphed from verb, or name, into an adjective of economy.
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So, let's use the term rescue of Bear Stearns, the fifth biggest investment bank in the nation.
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Because commented saying that the term rescue offends her.
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We're left with watching to see how the rescue is affected.
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We're left with watching to see how the rescue is affected.
September 2009 2009
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Jesus said, "I have come to bring good news," Luke 4 which he described as rescue of the poor and freedom for those held captive by destructive and discriminating religious and social systems gone mad.
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What follows this rescue is a subplot involving moonshiners while the "captor" returns to claim The Lady.
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We've provided a million dollars for what we call the rescue phase of that emergency and we are now going with senior bureaucrats and some defence force people from Tonga to examine what the recovery phase will look like.
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But what he calls a rescue, Desire names an abduction.
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But what he calls a rescue, Desire names an abduction.
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