rescue

CEFRB1

/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/

verb · noun

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In plain English

01
verb
To save someone or something from danger.
02
noun
An act of saving someone or something from danger.

Examples

The rescue workers are going to hand out supplies to the victims of the earthquake.
Try to hold on until a rescue team arrives.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/ˈrɛs.kju/

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verb

Extra meanings

To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
To save from any violence, danger or evil.

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In context

We had given up hope of rescue.
The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

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Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.
2004, John Pym, editor, Time Out Film Guide, page 70
The students’ final mission was their longest: a trip across the Nile to the city of Omdurman, at the request of Rwandan diplomats, to rescue a woman who, unlike the first they rescued, really was pregnant.
2023 May 5, Declan Walsh, “‘Only Word for Them Is Heroes’: How 2 Students Rescued Dozens in Sudan”, in The New York Times
Mecp2^(R255X/+) [mice] developed an overweight body weight phenotype by 10 weeks age and increased liver and heart weight by 8 months age. Abnormal body, liver and heart weight in Mecp2^(R255X/+) was rescued by MECP2ᵀᵍ¹ allele.
2015, Meagan R. Pitcher et al., “Rett syndrome like phenotypes in the R255X Mecp2 mutant mouse are rescued by MECP2 transgene”, in Human Molecular Genetics, volume 24, number 9, →DOI, page 2664
She had rescued a sofa once, had managed to locate the dealer who had bought it from under her nose while she perused a junk shop, and offered to buy it from him.
2016 May 26, Jojo Moyes, Foreign Fruit: 'Blissful, romantic reading' - Company, Hachette UK, →ISBN
To rescue whipped cream that has been overwhipped and appears grainy, add a little more liquid cream and whip it briefly or until very smooth and soft.
2019 November 12, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, John Becker, Megan Scott, Joy of Cooking: Fully Revised and Updated, Scribner, →ISBN, page 791

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Origin

verb

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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verb

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The firefighters worked all night to blank— the people trapped in the collapsed building.

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verb

The firefighters worked all night to blank the people trapped in the collapsed building.