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
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
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Daniel Webster
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Smith
The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.
Julia Roberts
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins
I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
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
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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