Meaning of 'rescue'
Meaning of 'rescue' (Webster Dictionary)
- The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
or danger; liberation.
- The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
- The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
- The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. - 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; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
- The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
- The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
- The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. - 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; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
Meaning of 'rescue' (Princeton's WordNet)
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