RESCUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rescue mean? 

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

1. recovery or preservation from loss or danger

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

• RESCUE (verb)
  The verb RESCUE has 2 senses:

1. free from harm or evil

2. take forcibly from legal custody

  Familiarity information: RESCUE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESCUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recovery or preservation from loss or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deliverance; delivery; rescue; saving

Context example:

a surgeon's job is the saving of lives

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

recovery; retrieval (the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rescue"):

lifesaving (saving the lives of drowning persons)

redemption; salvation ((theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil)

reclamation; reformation (rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course)

salvage (the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire)

salvage (the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction)

salvation (saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation)

search and rescue mission (a rescue mission to search for survivors and to rescue them)

Derivation:

rescue (free from harm or evil)

• RESCUE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rescue    ... he / she / it rescues   
Past simple: rescued   
Past participle: rescued   
-ing form: rescuing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from harm or evil

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

deliver; rescue

Hypernyms (to "rescue" is one way to...):

bring through; carry through; pull through; save (bring into safety)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rescue"):

relieve; salvage; salve; save (save from ruin, destruction, or harm)

reprieve (relieve temporarily)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

rescue (recovery or preservation from loss or danger)

rescuer (a person who rescues you from harm or danger)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take forcibly from legal custody

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

rescue prisoners

Hypernyms (to "rescue" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

In addition, electrical responses recorded from photoreceptors rescued by RPE patches were normal; whereas photoreceptors treated with a control empty scaffold had died.

(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Stem cell rescue is usually done using the patient's own stem cells that were saved before treatment.

(Autologous Stem Cell Rescue, NCI Dictionary)

Molecularly, BTG2 expression induces hypophosphorylation of RB and G1 arrest which could be rescued by overexpression of cyclin D1.

(BTG Cell Cycle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

One of the grooms ran to the rescue.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Finding out how bacteria quickly get to food is contributing to solutions for many human problems, including better ways of conducting search and rescue missions.

(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)

By activating the regeneration of pancreatic cells, the researchers were able to rescue mice from late-stage type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

(Fasting-Mimicking Diet May Reverse Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To rescue the conversation from one of the wells of silence into which it kept falling, Jo said hastily, "Now you must have a good long holiday!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She had grown so fond of the big Lion she was glad he had been rescued.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The study also shows that neurons infected by LACV can be rescued by interferon, a powerful antiviral protein.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

He had been so long without money that, like a rescued starving man who cannot let the unconsumed food out of his sight, Martin could not keep his hand off the silver.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)