To save from any violence, danger or evil.
The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.
A liberation, freeing.
The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
A city in California.
From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere (“to shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quatiō (“I shake”).
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