rescue

  1. Proper noun.  A city in California (zip code 95672).
  2. Verb.  To save from any violence, danger or evil.
  3. Verb.  To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
  4. Verb.  To recover forcibly.
  5. Verb.  To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
  6. Verb.  (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
  7. Verb.  (rfdef, lang en) .
  8. Noun.  An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
  9. Noun.  A liberation, freeing.
  10. Noun.  The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
  11. Noun.  A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
  12. Noun.  A rescuee.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.