rescue

Betekenis

Verb

1. To save from any violence, danger or evil.
2. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
3. To recover forcibly.
4. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
5. To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
6. To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.

Noun

1. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
2. A liberation, freeing.
3. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
4. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
5. A rescuee.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/

Etimologie

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

Sinne

Anyone planning to travel on a glacier should be trained in crevasse rescue .