Australian English Meaning of rescue

rescue

Other Australian English words related to rescue

Definitions and Meaning of rescue in English

Wordnet

rescue (n)

recovery or preservation from loss or danger

Wordnet

rescue (v)

free from harm or evil

take forcibly from legal custody

Webster

rescue (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.

Webster

rescue (v.)

The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.

The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.

The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

FAQs About the word rescue

rescue

recovery or preservation from loss or danger, free from harm or evil, take forcibly from legal custodyTo free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger,

recovery,salvation,deliverance,Protection,redemption,conservation,defence,extrication,guardianship,Preservation

adventure,compromise,endanger,jeopardise,risk,venture,gamble (with),hazard,Imperil,peril

rescuable => rescuable, rescriptor => rescript, rescriptively => Rescriptively, rescriptive => restrictive, rescription => prescription,