Definition of rescue
- v. t. - 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.
- v. - The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence,
or danger; liberation.
- v. - The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of
things lawfully distrained.
- v. - The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or
imprisonment.
- v. - The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the
enemy.