rescue
free from harm or evil
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,884 of 86,757 words measured. It occurs 45,946 times across 426,181 published chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- free from harm or evil also: deliver
- take forcibly from legal custody rescue prisoners
noun
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger also: deliverance, delivery, saving work is the deliverance of mankinda surgeon's job is the saving of lives
rescue in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Luckily Dame Dobson's churn staff came to the rescue.
Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2) · Thomas Cooper · Chapter 1
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With the waiting coyotes in mind, I leaned my wheel against a bowlder and went to its rescue.
A Mountain Boyhood · Joe Mills · Chapter 1
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It was quite in keeping with Haldane's disingenuous nature to accept the old gentleman's profuse thanks for the rescue.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century · Edward Payson Roe · Chapter 1
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But a rescue was approaching; a rescue sudden and marvellous, of which, in my wildest fancies, I had never dreamed.
A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel · Marie Corelli · Chapter 1
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Then the next thing I said was, 'Mary Taylor, tell the hired man to rig up the team-we'll go to the rescue.'
Following the Equator · Mark Twain · Chapter 1