Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2verb
The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
- 3verb
The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
- 4verb
The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
- 5verb
The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
- 6noun
recovery or preservation from loss or danger
"work is the deliverance of mankind"
"a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
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- 7verb
take forcibly from legal custody
"rescue prisoners"
- 8verb
free from harm or evil
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