Definition of "rescue"
- 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.
To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
- 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.
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