Synonyms for rescue
ˈrɛs kyures·cue

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1. rescueverb

   Synonyms:
   retake, untie, pull out of the fire, unshackle, save, recapture, deliver, release, liberate, free, redeem

   Antonyms:
   arrest, ignore, bind, preclude, capture, inhibit, obstruct, incarcerate, imperil, hamper, endanger, abandon, deprave, constrict, enslave, kidnap, corrupt

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1. rescueverb

   Synonyms:
   retake, recover, recapture, liberate, extricate, save, deliver, preserve

   Antonyms:
   endanger, imperil, betray, surrender, abandon, expose

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1. rescue, deliverance, delivery, savingverb

   recovery or preservation from loss or danger

   "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"

   Synonyms:
   livery, speech, pitch, delivery, bringing, preservation, deliverance, manner of speaking, economy, saving, legal transfer, obstetrical delivery

2. rescue, deliververb

   free from harm or evil

   Synonyms:
   pitch, have, fork out, deliver, bear, surrender, return, redeem, extradite, deport, turn in, cede, fork up, hand over, drive home, give up, fork over, present, give birth, birth, render, save

3. rescueverb

   take forcibly from legal custody

   "rescue prisoners"

   Synonyms:
   deliver

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. rescueverb

   Synonyms:
   liberate, free, deliver, save, redeem, extricate, release, ransom, set free, bring off

2. rescuenoun

   Synonyms:
   liberation, release, redemption, ransom, salvation, deliverance, extrication

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1. rescuenoun

   Synonyms:
   deliverance, liberation, salvation, ransom, extrication, disentanglement

2. rescueverb

   Synonyms:
   release, deliver, liberate, recapture, redeem, save, extricate, disenthrall

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1. List of paraphrases for "rescue":

   bailout, save, salvage, rescued, rescuing, relief, salvation, lifesaving, sauvetage, bail-out, rescate, saving, ransom, rescues, rescuers, blaze, life-saving, διάσωση, sar, saved, emergency, záchranu

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1. Helima Croft:

   Shale can't come to the rescue and you need OPEC to prevent runaway prices, in 2015, people wrote OPEC's obituary because of shale. But now OPEC is in the driver's seat.

2. River Phoenix:

   When he was 17, my brother wrote this lyric, he said: Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

3. Gwen Landt:

   Gwen Landt said. Gwen Landt added that Gwen Landt is trying to give tips to people on when its best to help these animals and when they should be left alone. Rescuers believe the beautiful fawn was separated from Gwen Landt mother and hit by a car which snapped her right back leg just below the hip bone. ( Credit : SWNS) When the mama is taking care of her baby, she leaves it in the ground and it curls up like a little croissant so the mother can go off and find food, she leaves the baby because it doesnt have any scent for a predator to detect. People often come across the baby deer and they think, Oh, it doesnt have a parent, Ill rescue it. But they should wait to see if the mother comes back.

4. Grant Malinowski:

   We don’t take it lightly. There’s a lot of focused effort that goes into calling those so we understand the gravity of asking people to voluntarily leave their homes, but it’s also weighed with the ability for us to rescue people, knowing that it’s going to be a very difficult – if not impossible – task to get through just tons of tons of dirt and debris where we just literally can’t make access.

5. Antony Blinken:

   We have concerns about some of the increased military activities in the Arctic. That increases the injuries or prospects of accidents, miscalculation, and undermines the shared goal of a peaceful and sustainable future for the region, so we have to be vigilant about that, there's been cooperation on a number of important areas, over the years on education, oil spill response, search and rescue, pollution issues, and it is our hope that that... the Arctic means an area of peaceful cooperation and peaceful collaboration.