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