rescue

Meanings

Verb

Noun

  • An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
  • A liberation, freeing.
  • The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
  • A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
  • A rescuee.

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Origin

  • From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- + excutere, present active infinitive of excutiō, from ex + quatiō.

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