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v. To set free, as from danger or imprisonment; save. See Synonyms at save1.

v. Law To take from legal custody by force.

n. An act of rescuing; a deliverance.

n. Law Removal from legal custody by force.

v. To save from any violence, danger or evil.

v. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

v. To recover forcibly

v. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege

v. To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

n. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

n. A liberation, freeing.

n. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril

n. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded

n. A rescuee.

v. 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

n. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

n.

n. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

n. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

n. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; liberate from actual restraint; remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil: as, to rescue seamen from destruction by shipwreck.

In law, to liberate or take by forcible or illegal means from lawful custody: as, to rescue a prisoner from a constable.

To go to the rescue.

n. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, danger, or any evil.

n. In law, the forcible or illegal taking of a person or thing out of the custody of the law.

n. Synonyms Release, liberation, extrication, redemption.

v. free from harm or evil

v. take forcibly from legal custody

n. recovery or preservation from loss or danger

"Banks will not lend in this climate of uncertainty when the term rescue has morphed from verb, or name, into an adjective of economy."

rescued    rescues    rescuing   

take   

rescue shot    to make a rescue   

quash   

rescuer    rescuee    rescue dog    come to someone's rescue    rescue mission   

free    save    deliver    retake    liberate    recapture    release    liberation    recover   

Ceausescu   

recovery    escape    evacuation    emergency    combat    reconnaissance    capture    deliverance    assault    assistance