Rescue

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.

Compare rescue with other words:

rescue vs. succor

fescue vs. rescue

evacuate vs. rescue

remedy vs. rescue

recuse vs. rescue

removal vs. rescue

protect vs. rescue

remains vs. rescue

rescue vs. saving

rescue vs. safe

rescue vs. salvation

aid vs. rescue

rescue vs. rescueless

betell vs. rescue

rescuable vs. rescue

assist vs. rescue

defend vs. rescue

deliverance vs. rescue

forestall vs. rescue

rescue vs. retrieve

ransom vs. rescue

acquit vs. rescue

attributive vs. rescue

flight vs. rescue

quash vs. rescue

liberation vs. rescue

rescue vs. rescuer

deprave vs. rescue

corrupt vs. rescue

capture vs. rescue

arrest vs. rescue

kidnap vs. rescue

preclude vs. rescue

obstruct vs. rescue

hamper vs. rescue

inhibit vs. rescue

constrict vs. rescue

incarcerate vs. rescue

bind vs. rescue

enslave vs. rescue

imperil vs. rescue

ignore vs. rescue

endanger vs. rescue

abandon vs. rescue

redeem vs. rescue

rescue vs. retake

rescue vs. untie

recapture vs. rescue

rescue vs. unshackle

rescue vs. sin

release vs. rescue

remove vs. rescue

rescue vs. withdraw

rescue vs. siege

rescue vs. restraint

recover vs. rescue

confinement vs. rescue

free vs. rescue

liberate vs. rescue

danger vs. rescue

evil vs. rescue

rescue vs. violence

rescue vs. save

rescue vs. salvage

deliver vs. rescue