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Definitions for Rescue

[1] to free or deliver from confinement, violence, danger, or evil.
[2] Law . to liberate or take by forcible or illegal means from lawful custody.
[3] the act of rescuing.
[4] of or relating to someone or something trained or equipped to rescue: a rescue dog.
[5] to bring (someone or something) out of danger, attack, harm, etc; deliver or save
[6] to free (a person) from legal custody by force
[7] law to seize (goods or property) by force
[8] the act or an instance of rescuing (as modifier ) a rescue party
[9] the forcible removal of a person from legal custody
[10] law the forcible seizure of goods or property

Words related to Rescue

delivery, salvage, recovery, relief, preserve, protect, retrieve, liberate, extricate, keep, free, release, recover, recapture, ransom, saving, redemption, feat, reclamation, heroism

Words nearby Rescue

rescind, rescissible, rescission, rescissory, rescript, rescue, rescue dog, rescue grass, rescue mission, reseal, research

Origin of Rescue

1300–50; (v.) Middle English rescuen < Old French rescourre, equivalent to re- re- + escourre to shake, drive out, remove < Latin excutere (ex- ex-1 + -cutere, combining form of quatere to shake); (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.

Other words from Rescue

res·cu·a·ble , adjective
res·cue·less , adjective
res·cu·er , noun
non·res·cue , noun
qua·si-res·cued , adjective
un·res·cu·a·ble , adjective
un·res·cued , adjective

Word origin for Rescue

C14: rescowen , from Old French rescourre , from re- + escourre to pull away, from Latin excutere to shake off, from quatere to shake

Synonyms for Rescue

delivery, recovery, relief, salvage, deliverance, disembarrassment, disentanglement, emancipation, exploit, extrication, feat, heroics, heroism, liberation, performance, ransom, reclaiming, reclamation, recovering, redemption, release, salvation, saving