Word Meanings - RESCUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Had I been

Additional info about word: RESCUE

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. Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. Shak. Syn. -- To retake; recapture; free; deliver; liberate; release; save. (more info) L. pref. re- re- + excutere to shake or drive out; ex out + quatere

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESCUE)

• Deliver
• Liberate
• free
• save
• utter
• set free
• surrender
• yield
• transmit
• concede
• give up
• rescue
• pronounce
• hand
• give
• entrust
• consign
• Emancipate
• enfranchise
• Reclaim
• Reform
• recal
• recover
• regain
• restore
• amend
• convert
• better
• Redeem
• Repurchase
• retrieve
• make amends for
• recompense
• ransom
• liberate
• satisfy
• fulfil
• discharge
• Redemption
• retrieval
• recovery
• satisfaction
• fulfilment
• expiation
• compensation
• atonement
• salvation
• indemnification

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESCUE)

• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose
• Recal
• suppress
• repress
• hush
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to RESCUE)

• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• REDEMPTIONER
  1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
• TRANSMITTER
  One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• EMANCIPATE
  Set at liberty.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.