Definitions
1.verbTo save from any violence, danger or evil."The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche."
2.verbTo free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint."to rescue a prisoner from the enemy."
3.verbTo recover forcibly.
4.verbTo deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
5.verbTo remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin."Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls."
6.verbTo achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
7.nounThe act of effecting a rescue.