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| rescuing | |
| 1. n. The act of effecting a rescue. |  |
| rescue | |
| 1. v. To save from any violence, danger or evil. | |
| The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche. | |
| 2. v. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. | |
| to rescue a prisoner from the enemy. | |
| 3. v. To recover forcibly. | |
| 4. v. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege. | |
| 5. v. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. | |
| Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls. | |
| 6. v. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions. | |
| 7. n. An act or episode of rescuing, saving. | |
| 8. n. A liberation, freeing. | |
| 9. n. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril | |
| The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders | |
| 10. n. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded | |
| 11. n. A rescuee. | |
| The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues. | |
