rescue

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈreskjuː/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Hyphenation: res‧cue

Verb

Plain form rescue

Third-person singular rescues

Past tense rescued

Past participle rescued

Present participle rescuing

1. When you rescue someone, you save the person from an emergency.

   The lifeguard jumped into the swimming pool to rescue the drowning woman.

Acronyms

• abandon
• enslave

Synonyms

• save
• liberate
• free
• release

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