(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(2) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(3) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(4) He also paid tribute to first responders and rescue workers.
(5) The war rescued the young men of Brooklyn from the Depression.
(6) Marker rescue experiments with alkylated T7 bacteriophage carried out in the presence and in the absence of nalidixic acid suggest that the gradient in rescue is due to two alkylation-induced causes: a DNA injection defect and an interference with DNA synthesis.
(7) Moreover, the rescue effect was surprisingly large considering the relatively small number of RPE cells transplanted.
(8) The purpose of this study was to review our results with mechanical support as rescue therapy in children with sudden circulatory arrest after cardiac surgery.
(9) High-dose thiotepa with autologous bone marrow rescue is a new and promising treatment modality in several kinds of solid tumors.
(10) Panel Julia St Thomas, protection and rule of law technical adviser, International Rescue Committee , Beirut, Lebanon , @juliastthomas , @theIRC Julia has been working on human rights issues in the Middle East since 2007.
(11) There are no more operational hospitals and not a single ambulance to rescue the ever-growing number of wounded and sick.
(12) Fv-1-specific host-range pseudotypes of murine sarcoma virus (MuSV) were developed by rescue from nonproducer cells with N- or B-tropic leukemia viruses.
(13) When oocytes were microinjected first with the mosxe antisense oligonucleotide, and subsequently with in vitro synthesized v-mos RNA, meiotic maturation was rescued as evidenced by germinal vesicle breakdown.
(14) Fitness for use in pharmacokinetic drug level determinations was shown in three patients, who received both low doses and high dose therapy combined with citrovorum factor rescue.
(15) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(16) Forty-nine patients have received OKT3 therapy, with 31 grafts (63.3%) successfully rescued.
(17) I ask the Turkish guard to confirm that they will send a search-and-rescue team.
(18) The quantum leap in integration being mulled will not save Greece, rescue Spain's banks, sort out Italy, or fix the euro crisis in the short term.
(19) Investors and analysts are concerned that while the European emergency fund had enough cash to rescue Greece, Ireland and potentially Portugal, if needed, it may not be large enough to fund Spain's borrowing needs.
(20) Banks continue to recover following the UK goverment's £500bn rescue plan announced the previous day.
Rescuer
Definition:
(n.) One who rescues.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(2) The contemporary family romance myth of the secret benefactor as rescuer is described.
(3) The interior minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, told MPs that security problems were making it difficult for rescuers to reach some areas.
(4) The second hit as rescuers arrived to deal with the casualties.
(5) Dolly Parton has offered to adopt a dog that was found abandoned at Glastonbury festival, after rescuers named the canine after her.
(6) The Chinese premier Li Keqiang flew into the disaster zone, where he met rescuers and survivors.
(7) A linear regression model based on emergency response times for 942 patients discovered in ventricular fibrillation was used to estimate expected survival rates if the first-responding rescuers, in addition to paramedics, had been equipped and trained to defibrillate.
(8) Jamielah had become dehydrated and was vomiting so they pleaded with the soldiers to allow the rescuers in.
(9) Rescuers found two traumatised survivors in a wash of scattered debris.
(10) The "Lifeway" is a device for rescue breathing consisting of a mouthpiece for the rescuer, a non-rebreathing valve, a mouth-sealing cap and a glosso-palatinal tube (GPT) reaching into the patient's mouth.
(11) Nine months post-disaster, 134 rescuers involved in an off-shore oil rig disaster were investigated by using a structured self report questionnaire to chart their experience of coping with disaster impact stressors and their mental and physical health 9 months after the disaster.
(12) Georgia's rescuers put up tarpaulins to shield her from the camera lenses as they extracted her through a 10ft square hole in the brickwork and took her to hospital.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rescuers search for five children trapped under rubble.
(14) Considerable problems exist for the initial rescuer and first responder, particularly if that person is alone.
(15) Six rescuers waded through and made their way upstairs.
(16) Of the 146 deaths in confined spaces, only 12% were in rescuers, fewer than previously reported.
(17) The results of this investigation showed that American Heart Association (AHA)-certified rescuers are able to produce a consistent pattern of chest wall displacement during a manikin training exercise, and only small differences in displacement recordings are found when comparing one certified rescuer to another.
(18) Rescuers, meanwhile, sifted through the rubble in search of more casualties but a fire hindered their efforts.
(19) The city centre ground to a halt as rescuers pulled bloodied corpses from the rubble and dazed, dust-covered survivors stumbled away.
(20) When the drama occurs, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) must be instituted at once according to a well-defined sequence: first, elementary CPR performed by any occasional rescuer, including 1. clearing of the airways, 2. mouth-to-mouth breathing, and 3. closed cardiac massage (CCM); then, medical CPR applied by a professional rescuer pursuing the same objectives and consisting of 1. tracheal intubation, 2. manual or mechanical ventilation with pure oxygen, 3. controlled efficacy CCM, and 4. intratracheal, then intravenous or intraosseous injection of adrenaline.