What is "rescue" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does rescue mean in English? Meaning of rescue definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "rescue" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "rescue": recovery or preservation from loss or danger

Noun

  • Meaning: recovery or preservation from loss or danger
  • Example: work is the deliverance of mankind a surgeon's job is the saving of lives
  • Synonyms: deliverance delivery rescue saving
  • Hyponyms: lifesaving reclamation redemption reformation salvage salvation search and rescue mission
  • Hypernyms: recovery retrieval
  • Meaning of "rescue": free from harm or evil

    Verb

  • Meaning: free from harm or evil
  • Synonyms: deliver rescue
  • Hyponyms: relieve reprieve salvage salve save
  • Hypernyms: bring through carry through pull through save
  • Meaning of "rescue": take forcibly from legal custody

    Verb

  • Meaning: take forcibly from legal custody
  • Example: rescue prisoners
  • Synonyms: rescue
  • Hypernyms: take
  • Synonyms:

    delivery, salvage, recovery, relief, ransom, saving, redemption, recovering, feat, reclamation, heroism, liberation, exploit, emancipation, deliverance, release, performance, salvation, disentanglement, heroics, extrication, disembarrassment, reclaiming, preserve, protect, retrieve, liberate, extricate, keep, free, release, recover, salvage, recapture, ransom, regain, disentangle, disembarrass, spring, unloose, deliver, emancipate, redeem, unleash, retain, manumit, safeguard, conserve, get out, bail one out, get off the hook, get out of hock, give a break, hold over, pull out of the fire, save life of, set free,

    Antonyms:

    danger, peril, failure, harm, injure, limit, restrain, forfeit, imprison, imperil, hurt, give, hold, lose, spend,

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    rescue in English: rescue
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