rescue

  • 21rescue */*/ — I UK [ˈreskjuː] / US [ˈreskju] verb [transitive] Word forms rescue : present tense I/you/we/they rescue he/she/it rescues present participle rescuing past tense rescued past participle rescued 1) to save someone from a dangerous or unpleasant… …

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  • 22Rescue Me — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Cinéma et télévision Rescue Me est un téléfilm américano candien réalisé par Jubal Harshaw en 1988. Rescue Me est un film américain réalisé par Arthur… …

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  • 23rescue — res|cue1 [ˈreskju:] v [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: rescourre, from escourre to shake out , from Latin excutere] to save someone or something from a situation of danger or harm ▪ Survivors of the crash were rescued by helicopter.… …

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  • 24rescue — res|cue1 [ reskju ] verb transitive ** 1. ) to save someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation: The crew of the tanker were rescued just minutes before it sank in heavy seas. rescue someone from something: He had been trying to rescue a… …

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  • 25Rescue Me — Seriendaten Deutscher Titel Rescue Me …

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  • 26rescue — [[t]re̱skjuː[/t]] ♦♦♦ rescues, rescuing, rescued 1) VERB If you rescue someone, you get them out of a dangerous or unpleasant situation. [V n] Helicopters rescued nearly 20 people from the roof of the burning building... [V n] He had rescued her… …

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  • 27rescue — I n. 1) to attempt; effect, make, mount a rescue 2) a daring, heroic rescue 3) a rescue from II v. (D; tr.) to rescue from * * * [ reskjuː] effect heroic rescue make mount a rescue …

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  • 28rescue — 1 verb (T) to save someone or something from a situation of danger or harm: Hundreds are still in the water, waiting to be rescued. | rescue sb/sth from: She died trying to rescue her children from the blaze. | a final attempt to rescue the… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 29rescue — Act of saving or freeing. At common law, forcibly and knowingly freeing another from arrest, imprisonment or legal custody without any effort by prisoner to free himself. Merrill v. State, 42 Ariz. 341, 26 P.2d 110. The unlawfully or forcibly… …

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  • 30rescue*/ — [ˈreskjuː] verb [T] I 1) to save someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation The crew of the ship were rescued just before it sank.[/ex] 2) to prevent a business, project etc from failing an attempt to rescue the peace process[/ex] rescuer… …

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