rescue

verb

1. 1

   To save from any violence, danger or evil.

   The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.

   Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition was lost with two ships and 129 men, inspiring dozens of subsequent expeditions to find and rescue him, none of them successful.

   Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.

   The students’ final mission was their longest: a trip across the Nile to the city of Omdurman, at the request of Rwandan diplomats, to rescue a woman who, unlike the first they rescued, really was pregnant.

2. 2

   To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

   to rescue a prisoner from the enemy

3. 3

   To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.

4. 4

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

   Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

5. 5

   figurativeTo achieve something positive under difficult conditions.

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

   Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.

   Over the course of the season, on 15 occasions the team had rescued a draw or better after falling behind, such that even against Juventus, there was an air of inevitability about the comeback.

6. 6

   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.

   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.

7. 7

   To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.

   I rescued a set of antique dining chairs.

   She had rescued a sofa once, had managed to locate the dealer who had bought it from under her nose while she perused a junk shop, and offered to buy it from him.

8. 8

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

   The cook rescued the sauce after it began to curdle.

   To rescue whipped cream that has been overwhipped and appears grainy, add a little more liquid cream and whip it briefly or until very smooth and soft.

9. 9

   To adopt (an animal).

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

noun

1. 1

   An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

   Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.

2. 2

   A liberation, freeing.

3. 3

   The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.

4. 4

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

   The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders

5. 5

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

6. 6

   A rescuee.

   The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues.

Forms

plural

rescues

past tense

rescued

past participle

rescued

present participle

rescuing

third person singular

rescues