RESCUE
\ɹˈɛskjuː], \ɹˈɛskjuː], \ɹ_ˈɛ_s_k_j_uː]\
Definitions of RESCUE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
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The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
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The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
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The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
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The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
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The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
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The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
By Noah Webster.
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Deliverance from danger, imprisonment, or violence.
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To set free from danger, imprisonment, or violence; save.
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Rescuer.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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To free from danger or violence: to deliver: to liberate.
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The act of rescuing: deliverance from violence or danger: forcible release from arrest or imprisonment:-pr.p. rescuing; pa.t. and pa.p. rescued.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. Act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger;—in law, the forcible retaking of a legal distress from the distrainor; the forcible liberation of a prisoner from the custody of the bailiff, police, or other officer; —also written rescous.
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