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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rescue \Res"cue\ (r?s"k?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rescued}
(-k?d);p. pr & vb n. {Rescuing}.] [OE. rescopuen OF
rescourre rescurre rescorre L. pref. re- re- + excutere to
shake or drive out ex out + quatere to shake. See {Qtash} to
crush, {Rercussion}.]
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.
Had I been seized by a hungry lion, I would have been a
breakfast to the best, Rather than have false Proteus
rescue me --Shak.
Syn: To retake; recapture; free deliver; liberate; release;
save.
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