LIFESAVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lifesaving mean? 

• LIFESAVING (noun)
  The noun LIFESAVING has 1 sense:

1. saving the lives of drowning persons

  Familiarity information: LIFESAVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIFESAVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Saving the lives of drowning persons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he took a course in lifesaving

Hypernyms ("lifesaving" is a kind of...):

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)

 Context examples 

Those without a matched sibling typically receive transplants from a parent or other donor, which are lifesaving, but often only partially restore immunity.

(Gene therapy restores immunity in infants with rare immunodeficiency disease, National Institutes of Health)

When someone is choking, quick action can be lifesaving.

(Choking, NIH)

Animals have evolved over millennia to use camouflage as a lifesaving way to dodge predators - so what happens to them when, over the course of just a few decades, their environments change?

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)