(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.
Retake
Definition:
(v. t.) To take or receive again.
(v. t.) To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
Example Sentences:
(1) No changes for either side, but Zinedine Zidane has been whispering into Cristiano Ronaldo's ear as he retakes the pitch.
(2) This year, that means anyone doing a retake in order to get the grades for law or accounting and finance degrees.
(3) A standardized questionnaire, with satisfactory retake item reliabilities and well established validities, was administered to a representative sample of female university students (N = 2366), drawn from Cairo and Ein-Shams Universities, both located in Greater Cairo.
(4) On top of that, a campaign to retake the north will pit largely Shia soldiers against Sunni fighters and, if air power and artillery are used in civilian areas, will risk further alienating the population.
(5) However, due to moving the larger studio audience (some of whom were on a gallery above the main set) around for different shots and retakes it took three times that.
(6) The official said they wanted to retake Mosul in the spring, before the summer heat and the holiday month of Ramadan kick in.
(7) Al-Maliki's appeal seems not only to have fallen on deaf ears but some tribal militias reportedly defected and fought alongside Isis, thus frustrating the government's efforts to retake Falluja.
(8) Criminals are released from prison and return to work every day, but the prospect of an unrepentant convicted rapist retaking his place at a League One football club has proved another matter.
(9) He added: "Retake the opportunity for individual tenants to choose to have their rent paid direct, then we will be with you all the way."
(10) There was no one in red and white prepared to take charge and deal with the visitors' inevitable surge, when it eventually came, by calming his team-mates down and retaking control of possession.
(11) Arab Iraq may still try to retake the province, but it is too focused on turning Baghdad and the Shia south into a fortress.
(12) More than a third of graduates from the training program, which until this year was available only to men, retake at lease one phase, the US army told AFP this week.
(13) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
(14) The military-drafted, vaguely worded constitution allows for the army chief to retake power in a national emergency.
(15) The long-promised battle for Tikrit and the province of Salahuddin, north of Baghdad, is set to be a dry run for another offensive, backed by the US-led international coalition and Shia militia, to retake Isis-controlled Mosul.
(16) They’re going to be retaking territory that’s part of the disputed territory.
(17) The Iraqi prime minister has vowed to retake every inch seized by the militants.
(18) Two earlier attempts to retake Delga failed, but in the early hours of Monday morning police launched a third and decisive assault, and have now re-entered the town, residents said by telephone.
(19) Hugely popular, evidence that the comprehensive ideal could succeed brilliantly, they offered a much wider curriculum than schools; students could be “academic” or given a second chance (the pass rate for “retakes” was almost double); all could escape the constraining regime of schools and be treated as young adults.
(20) She added: "That night, no one could tell me whether we could retake the Falklands.