Rescue Definition

rĕskyo͝o
rescued, rescues, rescuing
verb
rescued, rescues, rescuing
To free or save from danger, imprisonment, evil, etc.
Webster's New World
To take (a person or thing) out of legal custody by force.
Webster's New World

To recover forcibly.

Wiktionary

To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.

Wiktionary

(figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
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noun
rescues
The act or an instance of rescuing; deliverance.
Webster's New World
The criminal offense of removing a person or property.
American Heritage
The aiding of someone who is in immediate and serious peril; the unlawful release (usually by force) of a person who is legally imprisoned or under arrest.
Webster's New World Law
An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
Wiktionary

A liberation, freeing.

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adjective
Designating or of an animal, esp. a dog or cat, that has been adopted as a pet from a pound, animal shelter, etc.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A city in California (zip code 95672)

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Other Word Forms of Rescue

Noun

Singular:
rescue
Plural:
rescues

Origin of Rescue

  • Middle English rescouen from Old French rescourre re- re- escourre to shake (from Latin excutere) (ex- ex-) (quatere to shake kwēt- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English rescopuen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-") + excuto (“to shake or drive out"), from ex (“out") + quato (“I shake").

    From Wiktionary

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