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What does rescue mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rescue? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To save from any violence, danger or evil.
  2. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
  3. To recover forcibly.
  4. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
  5. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
  6. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
Noun
  1. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
  2. A liberation, freeing.
  3. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
  4. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
  5. A rescuee.
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