'Rescue' definitions:
Definition of 'rescue'
(from WordNet)
noun
Recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving]
verb
Free from harm or evil [syn: rescue, deliver]
verb
Take forcibly from legal custody; "rescue prisoners"
Definition of 'Rescue'
From: GCIDE
- Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescued (-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing.] [OE. rescopuen, OF. rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See Qtash to crush, Rercussion.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release; save. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Rescue'
From: GCIDE
- Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. [1913 Webster]
- Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) (a) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained. (b) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment. (c) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
- The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- Rescue grass. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rescue'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abet,
- affranchise,
- affranchisement,
- aid,
- assist,
- assistance,
- avail,
- bail out,
- bear a hand,
- befriend,
- benefit,
- break,
- breakout,
- buy,
- comfort,
- conserve,
- deliver,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- disembarrass,
- disentangle,
- disenthrall,
- disenthrallment,
- do good,
- doctor,
- ease,
- emancipate,
- emancipation,
- Emancipation Proclamation,
- emergence,
- enfranchise,
- enfranchisement,
- escape,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- extract,
- extricate,
- extrication,
- favor,
- flight,
- free,
- freeing,
- gay liberation,
- getaway,
- give a boost,
- give a hand,
- give a lift,
- give help,
- good offices,
- help,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- leak,
- leakage,
- lend a hand,
- lend one aid,
- let go free,
- let loose,
- liberate,
- liberation,
- manumission,
- manumit,
- ministration,
- ministry,
- office,
- offices,
- outlet,
- preserve,
- prisonbreak,
- proffer aid,
- protect,
- protection,
- rally,
- ransom,
- reclaim,
- recoup,
- recover,
- recycle,
- redeem,
- regain,
- release,
- relief,
- relieve,
- remedy,
- render assistance,
- restore,
- resuscitate,
- retrieve,
- revive,
- riddance,
- salvage,
- save,
- saving,
- service,
- set at large,
- set at liberty,
- set free,
- set up,
- setting at liberty,
- setting-free,
- succor,
- support,
- take in tow,
- therapy,
- vent,
- win back