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rescue English

Meaning rescue meaning

What does rescue mean?
Definitions in simple English

rescue Verb

— 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. — If you rescue someone, you free them from a prison or some other physical restraint. After capturing the enemy army, they rescued the prisoners. — If you rescue something, you take it back using force.

rescue Noun

— A rescue is a saving of someone or something. We saw his rescue from the burning house. — A rescue is a freeing of someone or something. The soldiers rescue of their target from the prison was all they could talk about.

rescue

— verb free from harm or evil — noun (= deliverance, saving) recovery or preservation from loss or danger work is the deliverance of mankind a surgeon's job is the saving of lives — verb take forcibly from legal custody rescue prisoners

Synonyms rescue synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as rescue?

rescue English » English

save deliver deliverance salvage release salvation help escape aid relieve relief saving redeem protect pull up liberate free succour keep set free riddance extricate spare restore recovery recover make safe liberation delivery assistance save one’s life save from salve retrieve reinforce reclaim recapture ransom preservation exempt emancipate assist Luyana whitewash unfreeze uncork unchain unblock take out succor

Topics rescue topics

What do people use rescue to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble

Conjugation rescue conjugation

How do you conjugate rescue?

rescue · verb

Examples rescue examples

How do I use rescue in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom tried to rescue Mary.
The rescue worker beat the area, looking for the child.
Ships and helicopters left for the spacemen's rescue.
Nobody came to my rescue.
He came to my rescue.
They kept singing until a rescue team came.
The lost boy held out until the rescue team came.
The rescue team rescued the injured.
The rescue workers arrived two hours too late.
Tom died trying to rescue Mary.
Markku put his life on the line to rescue Liisa.
We need one more volunteer to go on a mission to rescue Tom.
We must rescue the environment from pollution.
The rescue party searched for the missing passengers.
Your soul needs rescue.
We went to her rescue.
I came near being drowned, trying to rescue a boy.
He did his best to rescue her.
She did her best to rescue him.
When the firemen found out the girl's location, they ran to rescue her.

Movie subtitles

The small bureaucrat comes to the rescue.
A team of German miners belonging to a special rescue squad came from Westphalia to join up with the French rescuers.
Hey, you think they have enough rescue gear?
You're a member of the rescue squad, aren't you?
Get the rescue squad ready.
Come on, Foreman. Bring out the rescue gear.
Director, the rescue squad wants to go help the French.
We want the rescue equipment.
We're volunteering for the rescue work.
There are never enough rescue workers.
Mr. Berteux, our rescue teams have just left.
German rescue team.
Let them go. It's a German rescue team.
The rescue workers are at the bottom. There's still hope.
I will rescue what can still be rescued.
And not even the most outstanding person, not the most flourishing tree could rescue you from your anxiety.
Come on. We've got to go to her rescue.
Well, the rescue ship with the survivors doesn't get in until tomorrow.
Sorry your majesty, but we were celebrating the rescue. of Tom Tom and Bo Peep, from Bogeyland.
The gallant knight to the rescue.
Once again, I have to come to your rescue and be the mother of invention.
We gotta rescue her!
Who would you expect me to rescue?
You'd better rescue her.
I think it's risky. - Want to rescue him?
Don't tell me you climbed up to rescue me!
You climbed in that mist to rescue me when I'm probably a better climber than you are.
He remained in full view of the enemy in order to rescue his batman who had fallen fatally wounded.
If he sees someone in danger, he's going to rescue them or die trying, you know?
In any case, we have to rescue Kenichi first.
A rescue, right?
What about a rescue?
No rescue.
At first I despaired of ever achieving the same results I did abroad. and then lighting came to my rescue.
May I rescue you?
Madge, you'd better come over and rescue Horace.
Children, if Dale and Jerry are drifting out to sea. don't you think the best thing we could do is rescue them?
Want to rescue him? - Of course.
If you do, I'll be the first to your rescue.
Thanks for dashing to the rescue.
Then I come to the rescue and I'm greeted by a flying fire bucket.

News and current affairs

Then, on the 22 December, as crowds stormed the Central Committee headquarters in Bucharest, Stanculescu arranged for a helicopter to rescue Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu from the building's roof terrace.
The occasion for this latest round of historical jousting is the release of Clooney's new film The Monuments Men, which details Allied efforts to rescue art works from the Nazis during World War II.
Foreign ownership of banks was supposed to ensure their stability; it was expected that foreign banks would come to the rescue of their Argentine subsidiaries if they needed money.
Dutifully, the IMF is going to the rescue of bond holders.
Their leaders want to rescue the state, not raze it.
Fortunately, many journalists came to our rescue with tape recorders and cameras rolling.
To be sure, the rescue plan that was just defeated was far better than what the Bush administration originally proposed.
The goal would not be to rescue banks and their creditors, but to minimize the disruption that an uncontrolled default might cause.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came through last week with a larger rescue package for Brazil than world financial markets expected.
Ever since financial capital began moving freely around the globe, crisis has followed crisis, with the IMF called upon to put together rescue packages of ever larger size.
Therefore, the Iraq report is more than a plan to rescue Iraq; it is a road map for extricating America from the mayhem of an unwinnable war.
Second, these financial rescue and assistance packages cannot stop at the borders of the richest countries.
Russian TV recently showed a bus shuttling from Grozny to Moscow, the very bus that brought to Moscow the 120 kilograms of explosives used in the siege of the Dubrovka theater where so many died in the attempt to rescue the hostages.
In fact, there is only one difference between the two episodes: During today's crisis, huge international rescue packages have been available.
Economic (and political) logic requires that the eurozone will soon also need a common bank rescue fund.
KABUL - Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz province reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws' dungeon for seven months.
When the good times ended, taxpayers and governments were prepared to rescue them and to ensure that they continued to receive their extraordinary bonuses.
African civil society, whose mouthpiece is the press, cannot escape some measure of reproach for its failure to urge leaders to rescue fellow Africans.
The starting point of the contagion was investors' realization that Europe's rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, was designed to provide emergency financial support only to the peripheral countries.
Substantial public rescue funds have reportedly been siphoned off to foreign banks, Goldman Sachs, and staff bonuses for purposes unrelated to protecting public interests.
The first rescue package envisaged a resumption of growth, a decline in the fiscal deficit, and structural reforms.
Instead of defaulting, countries arranged rescue packages with the IMF.
At that point, self-inflicted domestic political weakness collided with the fiscal constraints of the euro rescue.
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that part of the motivation for this was French President Nicolas Sarkozy's reluctance to see Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF's managing director, ride in from Washington to the rescue of the eurozone.
Now China may become the target of a full-fledged trade war that could destroy - or perhaps rescue - the chances of bringing rich and poor nations together to fight global warming.

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