Definition of Rescue

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Rescue

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.

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.

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Rescue Quotations

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
Steve Irwin

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
John Acton

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
Orlando Bloom

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.
Christine Keeler

Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Mason Cooley

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Mason Cooley

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
Jean Paul

Rescue Translations

rescue in Danish is beholde, redde
rescue in Dutch is bergen, behouden, redden
rescue in Finnish is pelastaa
rescue in French is salut, sauver
rescue in German is Rettung, Rettung, Errettung, Bergung
rescue in Italian is salvataggio, salvare
rescue in Portuguese is poupar, salvamento
rescue in Spanish is salvacion, salvar

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