rescue
IPA: rˈɛskju
noun
- An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
- A liberation, freeing.
- The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
- A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
- A rescuee.
- A city in California.
verb
- To save from any violence, danger or evil.
- To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
- To recover forcibly.
- To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
- (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
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Examples of "rescue" in Sentences
- But what he calls a rescue, Desire names an abduction.
- Because commented saying that the term rescue offends her.
- We're left with watching to see how the rescue is affected.
- So, let's use the term rescue of Bear Stearns, the fifth biggest investment bank in the nation.
- What follows this rescue is a subplot involving moonshiners while the "captor" returns to claim The Lady.
- Banks will not lend in this climate of uncertainty when the term rescue has morphed from verb, or name, into an adjective of economy.
- 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.
- 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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