| VERB | social | rescue, deliver | free from harm or evil |
|---|---|---|---|
| possession | rescue | take forcibly from legal custody | |
| NOUN | act | rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving | recovery or preservation from loss or danger |
| Sounds | reh'skyuw | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | anew ... Yue: 59 rhymes with yuw... | |
| Meaning | recovery or preservation from loss or danger. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | deliverance, delivery, saving | |
| Narrower | lifesaving | saving / saving the lives of drowning persons |
| reclamation, reformation | rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course | |
| redemption, salvation | (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil / evil | |
| salvage | The act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire | |
| salvage | The act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction | |
| salvation | saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation | |
| search and rescue mission | A rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them | |
| Broader | recovery, retrieval | The act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) |
| Spanish | entrega, liberación, preservación, rescate, salvación, salvamento | |
| Catalan | preservació, rescat, salvament | |
| Verbs | rescue | free from harm or evil |
| Meaning | Free from harm or evil. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | deliver | |
| Narrower | reprieve | relieve temporarily |
| salvage, salve, relieve, save | save from ruin, destruction, or harm | |
| Broader | save, carry through, pull through, bring through | Bring into safety / safety |
| Spanish | liberar, rescatar, salvar | |
| Catalan | rescatar | |
| Nouns | rescue | recovery or preservation from loss or danger |
| rescuer | a person who rescues you from harm or danger / danger | |
| Meaning | Take forcibly from legal custody. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "rescue prisoners" | |
| Broader | take | Take by force |
| Spanish | liberar, libertar, rescatar | |
| Catalan | alliberar, llibertar, rescatar | |
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