rescue > define

noun

• Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.
  • usage: "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
  • synonyms: deliverance, delivery, saving

verb

• Free from harm or evil.
  • synonyms: deliver
• Take forcibly from legal custody.
  • usage: "rescue prisoners"

• (v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence or danger; liberation.
• (v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
• (v.) The forcible retaking or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
• (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
• (v.t.) 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.