rescue

rescue is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. verb. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
3. verb. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
4. verb. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
5. verb. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
6. noun. recovery or preservation from loss or danger

   "work is the deliverance of mankind"

   "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

   Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, saving

7. verb. take forcibly from legal custody

   "rescue prisoners"

8. verb. free from harm or evil

   Synonyms: deliver

Synonyms

deliverance, delivery, saving, deliver

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rescue:

cereus, ceruse, cesure, recuse, secure

Common word forms

rescued, rescuer, rescues, rescuees, rescuing, rescueless

Words from these letters

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