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rescuing

verbnounattested in dialogue

The act of effecting a rescue.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of rescuepresent participle and gerund of rescue

noun

  1. 1

    The act of effecting a rescue.

    Betty — so stout, and with that rheumatism in her leg — did she ever think of herself? Or Aunt Rosamund, with her perpetual rescuings of lost dogs, lame horses, and penniless musicians?

Forms

plural
rescuings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).