Thesaurus: rescue

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1. 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.
2. v. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
3. v. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
4. v. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
5. v. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
6. n. recovery or preservation from loss or danger
7. v. free from harm or evil
8. v. take forcibly from legal custody
9. 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. 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. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass (Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess, cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
10. To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, orevil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from astate 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 tothe best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. Shak.
11. n:50/v:50 n. recovery or preservation from loss or danger v. free from harm or evil v. take forcibly from legal custody