Definition
Meaning of 'rescue'
Meaning of 'rescue' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Rescue 
[ v.]
- The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
or danger; liberation. [ v.]- 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.
2. Rescue [ v. t.]
- 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. [ v. t.]Meaning of 'rescue' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. rescue [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
Example in sentence:
- a surgeon's job is the saving of lives;
- work is the deliverance of mankind
2. rescue [ v]
[ v]Meaning (2):
- take forcibly from legal custody
- take forcibly from legal custody
Example in sentence:
- rescue prisoners
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