Crossword clues for rescued
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rescue \Res"cue\ (r[e^]s"k[-u]), 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: rescue)
WordNet
adj. delivered from danger [syn: reclaimed]
Usage examples of "rescued".
The Roamers themselves kept a few EDF detainees, whom they had rescued from the recent battle in the rings of Osquivel.
We rescued them here after the Big Goose got its butt kicked by the drogues.
I just landed in a massacred colony and rescued an old man and a girl.
Aboard the escape modules, the rescued Ildirans moaned, raw with resonating pain from feeling the deaths of so many comrades.
The rescued Ildirans looked particularly glad to be surrounded by their kinsmen.
One of the warliners turned about with the rescued skyminers and headed back to Ildira.
While he enfolded many of the rescued rebels, others were lost entirely.
Amazed Therons gathered in relief and gratitude as they realized that the worldforest had been rescued againthis time not by fiery elemental beings, but by a strange living comet.
But Hartmut immediately plunged into the water after her, rescued her from drowning, and when he had again seen her safe in the boat, angrily reproved his father for his hasty conduct.
Gudrun was rescued by Hartmut from the hands of Gerlinda, who had just bidden her servants put her to death, so that her friends should not take her alive.
In memory of this adventure the baby rescued from the beast of prey was called Wolfdietrich, and he and his mother, accompanied by a nobleman named Sabene, were escorted in state to Constantinople, where Hugdietrich welcomed them with joy.
Of course Huon was victorious, and after slaying Angoulaffre, he restored the fair Angela to her lover, Alexis, and gave a great banquet, which was attended by the fifty rescued damsels, and by fifty knights who had come to help Alexis.
While Poles rescued Latvians at Riga, Germans rescued Poles along the Pomeranian Coast.
Blond and willowy, Tahiri resembled in many respects a fifteen-year-old version of Danni Quee - even down to having been a Yuuzhan Vong prisoner, until Anakin rescued her from a shaper laboratory.
Seeing this as his chance to save the galaxy, Anakin had insisted on coming anyway, arguing that if the group needed to be rescued, the Jedi were already doomed - and with them, the New Republic itself.