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See Rescue

English

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈres.kju/

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-rescue.ogg


Etymology

rescopuen, rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; prefix re- re- + excutere to shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See Qtash to crush, Rercussion.

Verb

  1. To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil.
  2. To liberate from actual restraint.
  3. To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil.
  4. : to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
  5. : to rescue seamen from destruction


Synonyms

To retake, recapture, free, deliver, liberate, release, save.

Antonyms


Derived terms


Translations

Noun

  1. The act of rescuing.
  2. (as an adjective) Used in a rescue.
  3. : rescue vehicle
  4. a special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded


Translations

fa:rescue fr:rescue io:rescue it:rescue hu:rescue pl:rescue fi:rescue ta:rescue te:rescue vi:rescue zh:rescue

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rescued
(-k?d);p. pr. & vb. n. Rescuing.] [OE. rescopuen, OF.
rescourre, rescurre, rescorre; L. pref. re- re- + excutere to
shake or drive out; ex out + quatere to shake. See Qtash to
crush, Rercussion.]
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.
[1913 Webster]

Had I been seized by a hungry lion,
I would have been a breakfast to the best,
Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release;
save.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), n. [From Rescue, v.; cf.
Rescous.]
[1913 Webster]
1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
or danger; liberation.
[1913 Webster]

Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Law)
(a) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of
things lawfully distrained.
(b) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or
imprisonment.
(c) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by
the enemy. --Bouvier.
[1913 Webster]

The rescue of a prisoner from the court is
punished with perpetual imprisonment and
forfeiture of goods. --Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]

Rescue grass. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A tall grass
(Ceratochloa unioloides) somewhat resembling chess,
cultivated for hay and forage in the Southern States.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet rescue
n : recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the
deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving
of lives" [syn: deliverance, delivery, saving]
v 1: free from harm or evil [syn: deliver]
2: take forcibly from legal custody; "rescue prisoners"
Moby Dictionary
Emancipation Proclamation , abet , affranchise , affranchisement , aid ,
assist , assistance , avail , bail out , bear a hand , befriend ,
benefit , break , breakout , buy , comfort , conserve , deliver ,
deliverance , delivery , disembarrass , disentangle , disenthrall ,
disenthrallment , do good , doctor , ease , emancipate , emancipation ,
emergence , enfranchise , enfranchisement , escape , escapism , evasion ,
extract , extricate , extrication , favor , flight , free , freeing ,
gay liberation , getaway , give a boost , give a hand , give a lift ,
give help , good offices , help , issuance , issue , jailbreak , leak ,
leakage , lend a hand , lend one aid , let go free , let loose ,
liberate , liberation , manumission , manumit , ministration , ministry ,
office , offices , outlet , preserve , prisonbreak , proffer aid ,
protect , protection , rally , ransom , reclaim , recoup , recover ,
recycle , redeem , regain , release , relief , relieve , remedy ,
render assistance , restore , resuscitate , retrieve , revive ,
riddance , salvage , save , saving , service , set at large ,
set at liberty , set free , set up , setting at liberty , setting-free ,
succor , support , take in tow , therapy , vent , win back


RESCUE, crim. law. A forcible setting at liberty against law of a person duly arrested. Co. Litt. 160; 1 Chitty's Cr, Law, *62; 1 Russ. on Cr. 383. The person who rescues the prisoner is called the rescuer. 2. If the rescued prisoner were arrested for felony, then the rescuer is a felon; if for treason, a traitor; and if for a trespass, he is liable to a fine as if he had committed the original offence. Hawk. B. 5, c. 21. If the principal be acquitted, the rescuer may nevertheless be fined for the misdemeanor in the obstruction and contempt of public justice. 1 Hale, 598. 3. In order to render the rescuer criminal, it is necessary he should have knowledge that the person whom he sets at liberty has been apprehended for a criminal offence, if he is in the custody of a private person; but if he be under the care of a public officer, then he is to take notice of it at his peril. 1 Hale, 606. 4. In another sense, rescue is the taking away and setting at liberty, against law, a distress taken for rent, or services, or damage feasant. Bac. Ab. Rescue, A. 5. For the law of the United States on this subject, vide Ing. Dig. 150. Vide, generally, 19 Vin. Ab. 94.
RESCUE, mar. war. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. There is still another kind of rescue which partake's of the nature of a recapture; it occurs when the weaker party before he is overpowered, obtains relief from the arrival of fresh succors, and is thus preserved from the force of the enemy. 1 Rob. Rep. 224; 1 Rob. Rep. 271. 2. Rescue differs from recapture. (q.v.) The rescuers do not by the rescue become owners of the property, as if it had been a new prize -- but the property is restored to the original owners by the right of postliminium. (q.v.)
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