rescue
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
law
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“to shake”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
Inflected forms:
form: rescues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rescuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rescued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rescued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rescues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To save from any violence, danger or evil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
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.
gloss: To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
gloss: To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
gloss: To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To adopt (an animal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We rescued a dog, Dylan, which would begin my lifelong love of animals, especially dogs.
gloss: An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.
gloss: A liberation, freeing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
gloss: A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rescuee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues.
Related words: quash
Derived words: rescuable
rescuee
rescuer
unrescued
come to someone's rescue
mountain rescue
neurorescue
nonrescue
pararescue
pararescueman
rescue board
rescue circle
rescue dog
rescue grass
rescueless
rescueman
rescue mission
rescue party
rescue service
rescue swimmer
rescue therapy
search and rescue
sea rescue kit
to one's rescue
to the rescue
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