Usually means: Saving lives from dangerous situations.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rescue: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rescue, rescue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rescue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rescue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rescue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rescue, rescue: Wordnik
  7. rescue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rescue, rescue: Wiktionary
  9. rescue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rescue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rescue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rescue, rescue: Dictionary.com
  13. rescue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rescue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Rescue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rescue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rescue: Rhymezone
  19. rescue: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rescue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rescue: Free Dictionary
  22. rescue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rescue: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. rescue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. rescue: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. rescue: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rescue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. RESCUE: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  3. rescue: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. RESCUE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. rescue: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rescue: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rescuable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To save from any violence, danger or evil.
verb:  To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
verb:  To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
verb:  (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
verb:  (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
verb:  (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
verb:  To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
verb:  To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
verb:  To adopt (an animal).
noun:  An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
noun:  A liberation, freeing.
noun:  (law, largely obsolete) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
noun:  The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
noun:  A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
noun:  A rescuee.
noun:  A city in California.

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