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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"

extricate

verb

To free or release from entanglement; disengage

SYNONYMS

bail out, disengage, disentangle, extract, liberate, rescue

EXAMPLES:

‘The person was extricated with critical injuries, official said.’

‘To extricate himself, he surrendered to the government the management of, and revenues from, most of his property.’

‘He wanted two millions to extricate the State from its financial embarrassments.’

‘As robust as the quarryman, this man made violent efforts to extricate himself from the embrace of the serf.’

‘He is like a strong man struggling in a morass: every effort to extricate himself only sinks him deeper and deeper.’

‘There was a prickly pear on top, the thorns of which caught him so that at first he could not extricate himself.’