rescue

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. t. liberate, set free, deliver, save; recover, reclaim. See liberation.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The act of rescuing]

Syn. deliverance, saving, release, extrication, liberation, ransom, redemption, salvation, reclamation, reclaiming, emancipation, disentanglement, disembarrassment, recovering, heroism; see also freeing .

2. [An instance of rescue]

Syn. deed, feat, performance, exploit, accomplishment, heroics; see also achievement 2 .

v.

1. [To save from danger or evil]

Syn. save, preserve, recover, redeem, recapture, salvage, reclaim, retain, keep back, safeguard, protect, retrieve, withdraw, take to safety, come to the aid of, relieve, bail out*; see also save 1 .

Ant. abandon, let slip from one's hands, relinquish.

2. [To free]

Syn. deliver, liberate, extricate, release, emancipate, ransom, set free, unloose, put at liberty, unleash, manumit; see also free 1 , ransom .

Ant. imprison*, capture, jail.

Syn.- rescue implies prompt action in freeing someone or something from imminent danger or destruction or in releasing someone from captivity [ the lifeguard rescued the drowning child ] ; deliver implies a setting free from confinement or from some restricting situation [deliver me from those interminable sermons ] ; redeem suggests a freeing from bondage or from the consequences of sin, or a reclaiming, as from pawn or deterioration [ how can I redeem my good name? ] ; ransom specifically implies the payment of what is demanded in order to free one held captive; save , in this connection, is a general, comprehensive synonym for any of the preceding terms

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

saving, recovery, delivery, extrication, relief, release, liberation, salvation, heroics.

II

v.

save, recover, deliver, extricate, relieve, release, liberate, free, bail out, retrieve, *save one's bacon.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To extricate, as from danger or confinement: deliver, save. Idiom: come to the rescue of. See HELP. 2. To extricate from an undesirable state: reclaim, recover, redeem, salvage. See HELP. II noun Extrication from danger or confinement: deliverance, delivery, salvage, salvation. See HELP.