Definition of rescue

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Rescue (v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

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Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death..
Rescuer :: Rescuer (n.) One who rescues.
Deliverer :: Deliverer (n.) One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.
Rescous :: Rescous (n.) See Rescue, 2..
Depauperize :: Depauperize (v. t.) To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.
Save :: Save (a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained..
Rescussee :: Rescussee (n.) The party in whose favor a rescue is made.
Save :: Save (a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames..
Rid :: Rid (v. t.) To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.
Rescue :: Rescue (v. t.) 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..
Rescued :: Rescued (imp. & p. p.) of Rescu.
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
Rescussor :: Rescussor (n.) One who makes an unlawful rescue; a rescuer.
Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..
Ransom :: Ransom (n.) To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy..
Rescat :: Rescat (v. t.) To ransom; to release; to rescue.
Rescowe :: Rescowe (v. t.) To rescue.
Save :: Save (a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life..
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