From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rescued} (-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. {Rescuing}.] [OE. rescopuen, OF. rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See {Qtash} to crush, {Rercussion}.] 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.
Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. --Shak.
Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release; save.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), noun [From {Rescue}, v.; cf. {Rescous}.]
1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. --Shak.
2. (Law) (a) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained. (b) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment. (c) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. --Bouvier.
The rescue of a prisoner from the court is punished with perpetual imprisonment and forfeiture of goods. --Blackstone.
{Rescue grass}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass ({Ceratochloa unioloides}) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: {deliverance}, {delivery}, {saving}]
verb
1: free from harm or evil [syn: {deliver}]
2: take forcibly from legal custody; "rescue prisoners"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "rescue": Emancipation Proclamation, abet, affranchise, affranchisement, aid, assist, assistance, avail, bail out, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, break, breakout, buy, comfort, conserve, deliver, deliverance, delivery, disembarrass, disentangle, disenthrall, disenthrallment, do good, doctor, ease, emancipate, emancipation, emergence, enfranchise, enfranchisement, escape, escapism, evasion, extract, extricate, extrication, favor, flight, free, freeing, gay liberation, getaway, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give help, good offices, help, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leakage, lend a hand, lend one aid, let go free, let loose, liberate, liberation, manumission, manumit, ministration, ministry, office, offices, outlet, preserve, prisonbreak, proffer aid, protect, protection, rally, ransom, reclaim, recoup, recover, recycle, redeem, regain, release, relief, relieve, remedy, render assistance, restore, resuscitate, retrieve, revive, riddance, salvage, save, saving, service, set at large, set at liberty, set free, set up, setting at liberty, setting-free, succor, support, take in tow, therapy, vent, win back
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