verb
To save from any violence, danger or evil.
The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.
To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less.
Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
noun
An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.
A liberation, freeing.
The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
name
A city in California.