Word Meaning

rescue definition and meaning

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.
v. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
v. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
v. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
v. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

Crossword clues for rescue

- At sea, secure salvage
- Bail out (ailing bank)
- Bailout
- Deliver
- Deliver from danger
- Deliver from harm
- Deliver or save
- Free from curse, moved east
- Free from danger
- Liberate
- Life-saving (mission)
- recapture
- Recover
- Redeem
- Remove from danger
- Salvage
- Save
- Save foolish seer who swallowed copper
- Save from danger
- Save from harm
- Save from peril
- Save new resource, or not?
- Secure about salvation
- Set free from captivity
- Somehow secure and deliver from danger
- Somehow secure and save