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Definition of Rescue

Rescue

  1. 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.
  2. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
  3. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
  4. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
  5. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

Rescue Quotations

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

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

Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.
Rush Limbaugh

I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and so I started Eddie's Rescue Ranch. We take in animals that need extra care and attention and the animals that get left behind.
Kelly Clarkson

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