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rescue

rescue, rescued, rescues, rescuing - v 
to free from danger 

Wordplays

synonyms

extricate, free, keep, liberate, preserve, protect, recapture, recover, release, retrieve, salvage

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Sentence examples

"The survivors were rescued by the Coast Guard."

"an all-out effort to rescue a beached whale"

"Projects will be led by five community partner organizations working to rescue and recycle food."

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etymology

rescue (v.)

c. 1300, rescouen, "deliver (someone) from an enemy's attack or restraint; deliver or save (someone) from evil or harm," from Anglo-French rescu-, Old French rescou-, stem of Old French rescorre, rescoure, rescure, etc., "protect, keep safe; free, deliver" (Modern French recourre), from re-, here perhaps an intensive prefix (see re-), + escourre "to cast off, discharge," from Latin excutere "to shake off, drive away," from ex "out" (see ex-) + -cutere, combining form of quatere "to shake"