rescue
//ˈɹɛs.kjuː//
Forms
- present (v1)
- rescue
- past (v2)
- rescued
- past participle (v3)
- rescued
- present participle
- rescuing
- 3rd person singular
- rescues
- Plural
- rescues
Definitions
1.To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
- Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.
- The students’ final mission was their longest: a trip across the Nile to the city of Omdurman, at the request of Rwandan diplomats, to rescue a woman who, unlike the first they rescued, really was pregnant.
2.To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
3.To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
4.To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
1.An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.
2.A liberation, freeing.
3.The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
4.The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3748
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“to shake”).
Displaced native Old English nerian.