Synonyms of the word rescue


RESCUEDELIVER - DELIVERANCE - DELIVERY - RECOVERY - RETRIEVAL - SAVE - SAVING - TAKE

rescue

  • v. To save from any violence, danger or evil.
  • v. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
  • v. To recover forcibly.
  • v. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
  • v. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
  • v. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
  • n. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
  • n. A liberation, freeing.
  • n. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
  • n. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
  • n. A rescuee.

deliver

  • v. To set free.
  • v. (process) To do with birth.
  • v. To free from or disburden of anything.
  • v. To bring or transport something to its destination.
  • v. To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
  • v. To express in words, declare, or utter.
  • v. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
  • v. To discover; to show.
  • v. (obsolete) To admit; to allow to pass.
  • v. (medicine) To administer a drug.

deliverance

  • n. Act of delivering, the state of being delivered, or something delivered.
  • n. Extrication from danger, imprisonment, rescue etc.

delivery

  • n. The act of conveying something.
  • n. The item which has been conveyed.
  • n. The act of giving birth.
  • n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
  • n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
  • n. The manner of speaking.
  • n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
  • n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
  • n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
  • n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

recovery

  • n. The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
  • n. A return to normal health.
  • n. A return to former status or position.
  • n. (economics) Renewed growth after a slump.
  • n. (mining) The extraction of an ore from a mine, or of a metal from an ore.

retrieval

  • n. the act of retrieving or something retrieved.
  • n. (computing) the operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device.
  • n. the cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness.

save

  • n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
  • n. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins…
  • n. (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run…
  • n. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
  • n. (role-playing games) A saving throw.
  • v. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
  • v. To put aside, to avoid.
  • prep. Except; with the exception of.
  • conj. (dated) unless; except.

saving

  • n. A reduction in cost or expenditure.
  • n. (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has…
  • n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
  • n. (obsolete) exception; reservation.
  • v. present participle of save.
  • adj. (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
  • adj. Preserving; rescuing.
  • adj. Thrifty; frugal.
  • adj. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
  • adj. Making reservation or exception.
  • adj. (in compound adjectives) relating to making a saving: e.g. labour-saving, energy-saving light bulbs.
  • prep. With the exception of; except; save.
  • prep. Without disrespect to.

take

  • v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
  • v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To remove.
  • v. (transitive) To have sex with.
  • v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
  • v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
  • v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
  • v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
  • v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
  • v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
  • v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
  • v. (transitive) To consume.
  • v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
  • v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
  • v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
  • v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
  • v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
  • v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
  • v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
  • v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
  • v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
  • v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
  • v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
  • v. (transitive) To require.
  • v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
  • v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
  • v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
  • v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
  • v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
  • v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
  • v. (transitive) To move into.
  • v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
  • v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
  • v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
  • v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
  • v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
  • v. (transitive) To deal with.
  • v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
  • v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
  • v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
  • v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
  • v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
  • n. The or an act of taking.
  • n. Something that is taken; a haul.
  • n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
  • n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
  • n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
  • n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
  • n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
  • n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
  • n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
  • n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

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