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Rescue

//ˈɹɛs.kjuː// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city in California.
Noun
  1. 1
    An act or episode of rescuing, saving. countable, uncountable

    "Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues."

  2. 2
    recovery or preservation from loss or danger wordnet
  3. 3
    A liberation, freeing. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril. countable, uncountable

    "The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders"

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  1. 6
    A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A rescuee. countable, uncountable

    "The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues."

Verb
  1. 1
    To save from any violence, danger or evil. transitive

    "The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche."

  2. 2
    take forcibly from legal custody wordnet
  3. 3
    To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. transitive

    "to rescue a prisoner from the enemy"

  4. 4
    free from harm or evil wordnet
  5. 5
    To recover forcibly, especially from a siege. transitive
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  1. 6
    To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. figuratively, transitive

    "Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls."

  2. 7
    To achieve something positive under difficult conditions. figuratively, transitive

    "Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less."

  3. 8
    To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation. transitive

    "Mecp2^(R255X/+) [mice] developed an overweight body weight phenotype by 10 weeks age and increased liver and heart weight by 8 months age. Abnormal body, liver and heart weight in Mecp2^(R255X/+) was rescued by MECP2ᵀᵍ¹ allele."

  4. 9
    To salvage and restore something that has been discarded. transitive

    "I rescued a set of antique dining chairs."

  5. 10
    To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking. transitive

    "The cook rescued the sauce after it began to curdle."

  6. 11
    To adopt (an animal). transitive

    "We rescued a dog, Dylan, which would begin my lifelong love of animals, especially dogs."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“I shake”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“I shake”).

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