rescue
To save from any violence, danger or evil.
Verb 4 meanings
To save from any violence, danger or evil.
“The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.”
To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
“to rescue a prisoner from the enemy”
To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
“Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.”
Noun 4 meanings
An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
A liberation, freeing.
The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
“The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders”
Etymology
From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“to shake”). Displaced native Old English nerian.
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RESCUE at a glance
RESCUE has 6 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (R 1 + E 1 + S 1 + C 3 + U 1 + E 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,068 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with rescue
All rhymes- BARBECUE14
- FESCUE11
- MISCUE10
- AUTOCUE9
- CURLICUE12
- PARARESCUE14
- BURLEYCUE16
- CARDECUE13
- CURLYCUE15
- PIRLICUE12
- PURLICUE12
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- FESCUE11
- RESKUE10
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