Definitions for rescue
ˈrɛs kyures·cue

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving(verb)

   recovery or preservation from loss or danger

   "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

2. rescue, deliver(verb)

   free from harm or evil

3. rescue(verb)

   take forcibly from legal custody

   "rescue prisoners"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. rescue(Noun)

   An act or episode of rescuing, saving.

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

2. rescue(Noun)

   A liberation, freeing.

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

3. rescue(Noun)

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

   The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

4. rescue(Noun)

   A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

5. rescue(Noun)

   A rescuee.

   The dog proved a rescue with some behavior issues.

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

6. rescue(Verb)

   To save from any violence, danger or evil.

   The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

7. rescue(Verb)

   To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

   to rescue a prisoner from the enemy

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

8. rescue(Verb)

   To recover forcibly

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

9. rescue(Verb)

   To deliver by arms, notably from a siege

   Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

10. rescue(Verb)

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

    Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

    Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

11. Rescue(ProperNoun)

    A city in California (zip code 95672)

    Etymology: rescopuen, from rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; from prefix re- + excutere, from ex + quatere.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Rescue(verb)

   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; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction

   Etymology: [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]

2. Rescue

   the act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation

   Etymology: [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]

3. Rescue

   the forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained

   Etymology: [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]

4. Rescue

   the forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment

   Etymology: [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]

5. Rescue

   the retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy

   Etymology: [From Rescue, v.; cf. Rescous.]

Freebase(2.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Rescue

   Rescue comprises responsive operations that usually involve the saving of life, or prevention of injury during an incident or dangerous situation. Tools used might include search and rescue dogs, mounted search and rescue horses, helicopters, the "jaws of life", and other hydraulic cutting and spreading tools used to extricate individuals from wrecked vehicles. Rescue operations are sometimes supported by special vehicles such as fire department's or EMS heavy rescue vehicle.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Rescue

   res′kū, v.t. to free from danger or violence: to deliver: to liberate:—pr.p. res′cūing; pa.t. and pa.p. res′cūed.—n. the act of rescuing: deliverance from violence or danger: forcible release from arrest or imprisonment.—adj. Res′cuable.—ns. Res′cuer; Rescūssēē′, the party rescued; Rescus′sor, one who makes an unlawful rescue. [M. E. rescous, a rescue—O. Fr. rescousse—rescourre—L. re-, away, excutĕre, to shake out—ex, out, quatĕre, to shake.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. rescue

   Any vessel recovered by the insurrection of prisoners on board of her, or by her being forced by stress of weather into our ports, she is restored on salvage. There is no rule prescribed by the law of England in the case of foreign property rescued; with British subjects the court usually adopts the proportion of recapture. In respect to foreigners the only guide is that of "quantum meruit."

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. rescue

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

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rescue' in Nouns Frequency: #2077

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'rescue' in Verbs Frequency: #815

Anagrams for rescue »

1. cereus, ceruse, Creuse, recuse, secuer, secure

How to pronounce rescue?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rescue in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rescue in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of rescue in a Sentence

1. Zenaida Monsada:

   We have directed Semirara Mining Corporation to focus on search and rescue operations.

2. Lloyd Garrison:

   On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

3. President Barack Obama:

   I deployed an entire operation — at significant risk — to rescue not only her, but the other individuals who had been held, and probably missed them by a day or two.

4. Zeid Raad al-Hussein:

   The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable.

5. Anurag Gupta:

   We have started the rescue operation but the biggest challenge is to find a way to clear the inundated airport and main roads.

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