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rescue
Verb
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If you rescue someone, you save them from any violence, emergency, or evil.
The lifeguard jumped into the swimming pool to rescue the drowning woman.
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If you rescue someone, you free them from a prison or some other physical restraint.
After capturing the enemy army, they rescued the prisoners.
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If you rescue something, you take it back using force.
rescue
Noun
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A rescue is a saving of someone or something.
We saw his rescue from the burning house.
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A rescue is a freeing of someone or something.
The soldiers rescue of their target from the prison was all they could talk about.
dawn
Noun
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Dawn is the start of the morning light just before sunrise.
He woke up before dawn to do a morning jog.
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The dawn of something is the beginning of it.
dawn
Verb
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If something dawns upon a person or thing, they realise it.
It dawned upon him that his answer to the question was wrong.