rescue

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To save from any violence, danger or evil.
2. (transitive) To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
3. (transitive) To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
6. (transitive) 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.
7. (transitive) To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
8. (transitive) To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
9. (transitive) To adopt (an animal).

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
2. (countable, uncountable) A liberation, freeing.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
4. (countable, uncountable) The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
5. (countable, uncountable) A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
6. (countable, uncountable) A rescuee.

Opposite of

endanger, imperil, arrest, capture, kidnap, besiege, corrupt, deprave

Synonyms

save

deliver

deliverance

salvage

release

salvation

help

escape

aid

relieve

relief

saving

redeem

protect

liberate

free

🆓

pull up

succour

keep

set free

extricate

riddance

make safe

delivery

spare

liberation

restore

assistance

recover

recovery

emancipate

save from

save one’s life

retrieve

reinforce

salve

recapture

reclaim

ransom

exempt

Luyana

assist

preservation

dispense

bring off

disentangle

disengage

bail out

disencumber

bailout

Translations

sauver

retten

salvare

sauvetage

Rettung

redden

salvar

rescatar

rescate

salvar

secourir

salvataggio

secours

salvamento

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rescouen

In summary

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”).

Sentences

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