Rescue
['reskjuː] or ['rɛskju]
Definition
(noun.) recovery or preservation from loss or danger; 'work is the deliverance of mankind'; 'a surgeon's job is the saving of lives'.
(verb.) take forcibly from legal custody; 'rescue prisoners'.
(verb.) free from harm or evil.
Edited by Colin--From WordNet
Definition
(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.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
(v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
(v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
(v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
Inputed by Estella
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Liberate, free, deliver, save, redeem, extricate, release, ransom, set free, bring off.
n. Liberation, release, redemption, ransom, salvation, deliverance, extrication.
Edited by Angus
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SALVATION]
SYN:Retake, recover, recapture, liberate, extricate, save, deliver, preserve
ANT:endanger, imperil, betray, surrender, abandon, expose
Edited by Elise
Definition
v.t. to free from danger or violence: to deliver: to liberate:—pr.p. res′cūing; pa.t. and pa.p. res′cūed.—n. the act of rescuing: deliverance from violence or danger: forcible release from arrest or imprisonment.—adj. Res′cuable.—ns. Res′cuer; Rescūssēē′ the party rescued; Rescus′sor one who makes an unlawful rescue.
Checker: Merle
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being rescued from any danger, denotes that you will be threatened with misfortune, and will escape with a slight loss. To rescue others, foretells that you will be esteemed for your good deeds.
Edited by Henry
Examples
- There was a cry and a rush to rescue, but the right hand which all this while had lain hidden in Moore's breast, reappearing, held out a pistol. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Sir Leicester is whipped in to the rescue of the Doodle Party and the discomfiture of the Coodle Faction. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I believe it too, I said, coming to Laura's rescue. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I'm not playing, I never do, said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The manufacturer nodded an affirmative, and the rescue-party set out. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She wished Beth could hear him, but she did not say so, only praised him till he was quite abashed, and his grandfather came to his rescue. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Are you really rescued? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This they buried well up on the island, and for three years they lived there in constant hope of being rescued. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was he who rescued you? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But the strangest part of it all is the wonderful creature who rescued us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Bred in meanness and hard dealing, this had rescued him to be a man of honourable mind and open hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- How would Our Lord have been if Peter had rescued him in the Garden? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Miss Flite has been bravely rescued from her chamber, as if it were in flames, and accommodated with a bed at the Sol's Arms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Does Miss Halcombe assert her supposed sister's identity to the owner of the Asylum, and take legal means for rescuing her? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Issus, you see, has not struck me dead, nor is she rescuing her faithful Xodar from the clutches of the unbeliever who defamed her fair beauty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But Wemmick was equally untiring and gentle in his vigilance, and the Aged read on, quite unconscious of his many rescues. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- From these Mr Venus rescues the canary in a glass case, and shows it to the boy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checked by Emil