1. Verb
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.
2. Verb
The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
3. Verb
The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
4. Verb
The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
5. Verb
The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
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