rescue1 verbrescue2 noun
rescueres‧cue1 /ˈreskjuː/ ●●○ S3 W3 verb [transitive] 
WORD ORIGINrescue1
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French rescourre, from escourre ‘to shake out’, from Latin excutereVERB TABLE
rescue
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | rescue |
| he, she, it | rescues | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | rescued |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have rescued |
| he, she, it | has rescued | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had rescued |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will rescue |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have rescued |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am rescuing |
| he, she, it | is rescuing | |
| you, we, they | are rescuing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was rescuing |
| you, we, they | were rescuing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been rescuing |
| he, she, it | has been rescuing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been rescuing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be rescuing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been rescuing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Firefighters worked for two hours to rescue people who were trapped in the bus.
- She was rescued from her underpaid factory job by a movie director searching for new talent.
- We were rescued from the sinking ship by a passing fishing boat.
- And how do we rescue particular places, or should we leave them to decay?
- Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.
- Increased rates of operative delivery are not necessarily bad if genuinely compromised babies are rescued from death and damage.
- Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.
- Time for college basketball to rescue us.
- Twenty one pensioners had to be rescued by boat from their sheltered accommodation.
THESAURUS
to remove someone from a dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant situation: · Firefighters worked for two hours to rescue people from the building.· Will you rescue me if I get stuck talking to Sam?
to come and rescue or help someone: · It was an embarrassing moment, but fortunately Paul came to the rescue.· Several people saw I was in trouble, but no one came to my rescue.
to prevent someone from being killed, harmed, or losing something, or to make it possible for something to continue: · Wearing a seat belt can help save your life.· They saved the hospital from closure.· If you break down in the desert, there is no one there to save you.
to rescue someone from a dangerous place by taking them away in a boat or aircraft: · A lifeboat picked them up two miles from the coast.· They spent the night near the top of the mountain, before being picked up by a helicopter.
to rescue a person, company etc from a difficult situation, by providing them with the money they need: · A number of state-owned enterprises have been bailed out by the central bank.· He owed thousands of pounds and his mother had to bail him out.
Longman Language Activatorto help someone in danger or a bad situation to stop someone from being killed or badly hurt, or help them out of a bad situation: · Ben would have died in the blaze if a fireman hadn't saved him.· The President had been shot from close range. It was only his bullet-proof vest that saved him.save somebody from something: · Officer McCarthy had saved her from a savage attack in the park.· Environmentalists are campaigning to save the white rhinoceros from extinction.save somebody from doing something: · Michael was saved from choking to death by Susie.save somebody's life: · Wearing a seat belt can help save your life.
to save someone by removing them from a dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant situation, especially when this involves taking serious risks: · Firefighters worked for two hours to rescue people who were trapped in the bus.rescue somebody from something: · We were rescued from the sinking ship by a passing fishing boat.· She was rescued from her underpaid factory job by a movie director searching for new talent.
to save someone from a dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant situation, when they urgently need help: · He attempted to rob another girl, but her friends came to the rescue. come to somebody's rescue: · The baby was destined to spend her life in an orphanage until a nurse came to her rescue.come to the rescue of: · Agassi once again came to the rescue of his country in the quarter final of the Davis Cup.
to save someone from a dangerous place by taking them away in a boat or aircraft: pick up somebody: · They spent the night near the top of the mountain, before being picked up by a helicopter.pick somebody up: · A lifeboat picked them up two miles from the coast.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a group of US congressmen on a fact-finding mission to Northern Ireland
to save someone or something from a situation of danger or harm: · Two firefighters were hurt in the rescue attempt.
a group of US congressmen on a fact-finding mission to Northern Ireland (=people who help people who are in difficulty on a mountain)· Mountain rescue teams were called out to search for the missing climbers.
(=to stop someone or something from being forgotten)· He was rescued from obscurity by Alder's brilliant biography in 1985.
(=a plan for saving a company, economy etc)· Which rescue plan offers the company the best prospects of survival?
· He was in the water for two hours before a rescue team arrived.
· Rescue workers searched the rubble all night looking for survivors.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· General Lekhanya said he shot the man in an attempt to rescue a woman in distress.· Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.· But increasingly Waite had become involved in his attempts to rescue hostages held in the Middle East.· This study is not an attempt to rescue from oblivion a poet whom critical attention has neglected.· The father continued the suicide attempt but he was rescued by police.· The Falangists had made a number of attempts to rescue Primo de Rivera from prison, all of which had failed.· The first attempt to rescue Nature's diversity began in 1828.
· She and her husband rescued their three children from their blazing home with seconds to spare early yesterday.· He tried to rescue the other five children, but the flames forced him back.· They later stormed the house and rescued the child - but missed their prey.· It is her aim to rescue children from the bleak existences of orphanages and hospitals.· But Zeus rescued her unborn child, sewed it up in his own thigh, and brought it forth afterwards.
· It is likely to be the last chance to rescue the economy from chaos.
· He lay on the track for five minutes before being rescued by two friends who were also out riding.
· Hercules agreed to rescue the girl if her father would give him the horses Zeus had given his grandfather.
· But increasingly Waite had become involved in his attempts to rescue hostages held in the Middle East.· Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.· President Carter displayed considerable restraint in the crisis until an attempt was made in April 1980 to rescue the hostages by force.· Carter ordered the Pentagon to prepare a contingency plan for military action to rescue the hostages.
· They rescued the man who later died.· In Antrim police had to rescue a man from a hostile crowd when he was pulled from his car.· In eight or nine rounds the referee should be stepping in to rescue the younger man, unless he is knocked out.· A doctor attempted to rescue the men and was killed by the fumes.
· Their mission is to rescue friendly foreigners from unfriendly territory.
· General Lekhanya said he shot the man in an attempt to rescue a woman in distress.· It was a deliberate lie on the part of regulationists to accuse repealers of having no desire to rescue women from prostitution.· I once had a thank you for rescuing a woman who had a baby in Woodstock.· Their task was to rescue a seriously injured woman who'd fallen several hundred feet in difficult weather conditions.· The plan had been to locate and rescue a seriously injured woman.· She'd rescued this woman - his aunt presumably - from her crashed car, and gone for help.· Jeanne requested an armed raid on the building to rescue the woman, but the group leader wouldn't hear of it.
· He stepped into it and was dragged away by two rescue workers whose ankles were barely covered by the water.· As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies.
Survivors of the crash were rescued by helicopter.rescue somebody/something from somebody/something She died trying to rescue her children from the blaze.—rescuer noun [countable]THESAURUSrescue to remove someone from a dangerous, difficult, or unpleasant situation: · Firefighters worked for two hours to rescue people from the building.· Will you rescue me if I get stuck talking to Sam?come to the rescue/somebody’s rescue to come and rescue or help someone: · It was an embarrassing moment, but fortunately Paul came to the rescue.· Several people saw I was in trouble, but no one came to my rescue.save to prevent someone from being killed, harmed, or losing something, or to make it possible for something to continue: · Wearing a seat belt can help save your life.· They saved the hospital from closure.· If you break down in the desert, there is no one there to save you.pick somebody up to rescue someone from a dangerous place by taking them away in a boat or aircraft: · A lifeboat picked them up two miles from the coast.· They spent the night near the top of the mountain, before being picked up by a helicopter.bail somebody out to rescue a person, company etc from a difficult situation, by providing them with the money they need: · A number of state-owned enterprises have been bailed out by the central bank.· He owed thousands of pounds and his mother had to bail him out.rescue1 verbrescue2 noun
rescuerescue2 ●●○ noun [countable, uncountable] EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
- Assume that a duty of care is owed by A to C as a rescue was reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances.
- But Tuesday afternoon rescue workers were still searching the rubble, cordoned off by dozens of uniformed soldiers and police.
- Glenn Chamberlain said from the rescue center in Halifax.
- Royal Humane Society, founded in 1774 for the rescue of persons from drowning, and the recovery of dead bodies.
- So far, the rescue seems to have succeeded, at little cost to the lenders.
- Then it seems the rescue boat itself crashed, throwing Mr Hill into the water for a second time.
Longman Language Activatorto help an organization, business, relationship etc
to do something to help a business, country, relationship etc that is having serious problems and will soon fail: · Bob and Martha worked hard to save their marriage, for the sake of the children.save something from something: · Financial experts are trying to save one of Britain's biggest holiday companies from bankruptcy.
to help an organization, business, or country that is having serious financial problems, for example by lending money or improving the way it is organized: · The World Bank hopes that these emergency measures will rescue the Zambian economy.· The city council had continued to overspend, assuming that the federal government would come to the rescue.rescue something from something: · He reorganized the family business, rescuing it from severe debt.
to help a person, business, or organization that is having serious financial problems by lending or giving them money: bail out somebody: · The government bailed out the ailing car company in order to protect jobs.bail somebody out: · He owed thousands of dollars, and his mother had to sell land to bail him out.bail somebody out of something: · You can't expect your father to bail you out of trouble all the time.
to do something to help a company or relationship when it is having serious problems, so that it does not fail completely: · The company is busy trying to salvage its core business.· Retailing and tourism can't salvage an ailing economy.salvage something from something: · If you no longer care for your partner, it is time to ask what can be salvaged from your relationship.
to save a person or company that is in serious financial difficulties and is soon going to fail, by giving them enough money to continue: · Just before my business went bankrupt, my father threw me a lifeline in the form of a $10,000 loan.· The Administration refuses to throw a lifeline to the troubled automobile industry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives a group of US congressmen on a fact-finding mission to Northern Ireland
· A woman is in hospital following a dramatic rescue from her blazing flat.
· The lifeboat crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast.
verbs (=try to rescue someone)· The stormy conditions made it impossible to mount a rescue.
rescue + NOUN· One fire fighter was severely burned in the rescue attempt.
· A major rescue operation was launched yesterday after two divers were reported missing.
· Rescue workers are searching through the rubble for survivors.
· He was still conscious when the rescue team arrived.
· A rescue helicopter is on its way.
(=plan to save a company, economy etc that is in trouble)· They drew up a rescue plan that involved restructuring the firm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· Two firefighters were hurt in the rescue attempt.
a group of US congressmen on a fact-finding mission to Northern Ireland (=people who help people who are in difficulty on a mountain)· Mountain rescue teams were called out to search for the missing climbers.
(=to stop someone or something from being forgotten)· He was rescued from obscurity by Alder's brilliant biography in 1985.
(=a plan for saving a company, economy etc)· Which rescue plan offers the company the best prospects of survival?
· He was in the water for two hours before a rescue team arrived.
· Rescue workers searched the rubble all night looking for survivors.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· Read in studio An animal rescue centre that cares for sick and injured wildlife may have to close because of the recession.· On site there's an environmental museum and an animal rescue centre.
· One fireman was severely burned in a rescue attempt.· But many seals and otters are now dying on inaccessible rocks and today's high winds are preventing any rescue attempt.
· A crash attracted the attention of the rescue boats, and the cameras.· Try to sail in a location offering safety cover - a rescue boat to pick you up if you get into trouble.· Then it seems the rescue boat itself crashed, throwing Mr Hill into the water for a second time.
· Read in studio An animal rescue centre that cares for sick and injured wildlife may have to close because of the recession.· On site there's an environmental museum and an animal rescue centre.· Sanctuary appeal: Scarborough wildlife leader Jim Ward has launched an appeal to create a rescue centre.· Read in studio A wildlife rescue centre has cancelled an invitation to Princess Michael of Kent because she hunts.
· Initial rescue efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy equipment and by landslides triggered by the initial earthquake.· He was found after a six-hour rescue effort.· A LOW-FLYING duck was fatally injured in Darlington yesterday despite the rescue efforts of shopworkers.· Y., resident still limps from a bullet wound suffered days after his rescue effort.· It is covered with enlarged images of the explosion, the rescue efforts and the implosion.· I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts.· Search and rescue efforts were hampered Friday by rain and heavy seas.
· Highlight of the day was a 20 minute flight in one of the rescue helicopters.· He was struck there for four hours with Park Service rescue helicopters buzzing around, throwing him ropes.· A rescue helicopter was scrambled after his empty dinghy was spotted floating out to sea.· The rescue helicopter strewed thousands of blossoms on the waters of the Bay.
· They had already tried to get him to mount a rescue mission using his ship.· No staggering lines formed at rescue missions.· A desperate rescue mission was launched.· He hit upon a rescue mission for himself: freedom bonds.· But social service officials have warned that even if this latest rescue mission is successful the children could face long-term emotional problems.· Intermittent radio failure on board the boat also hampered the rescue mission.· He believes rescue missions should be carefully planned but do serve a purpose.
· His only chance of avoiding a council bed and breakfast hostel is a mortgage rescue scheme.
· We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly, straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team.· This is a theme echoed by John Allen, leader of the Cairngorms mountain rescue team.· More than 100 rescuers including doctors, mountain rescue teams and other skiers, clawed at the snow.· This body acts as a guide to all mountain rescue teams.· Four-year-old Oscar went racing into the darkness as his owners helped make hot drinks for mountain rescue teams.· I was told that in Britain the weather has to be really dire before a mountain rescue search is called off.· I've been involved in the mountain rescue world for 14 years.
· Divers alert: A major rescue operation was launched yesterday after two divers were reported missing off Redcar.· After searching two days for the body, authorities called off the rescue operation.· He merely flew into the airport, where the military rescue operation was being organized.· Indeed, the entire rescue operation seems to have proceeded at a glacial pace.· Fortunately a small group of folk banded together determined to save the bird and the rescue operation began.· This was the command center for the dangerous rescue operation of ValuJet Flight 592.· This rescue operation proved reasonably successful, as shown by Table 11.4.· Some sites are so important that it may be necessary for a rescue operation on an international scale.
· Earlier, Kok said he wanted Daimler-Benz to contribute more to a rescue package for the aircraft maker.· He is set to front a new rescue package, with a mystery backer ready to invest a substantial sum.· Newcastle have £6m worth, and are hoping that Sir John's proposed rescue package helps them out.· The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster.· The £10m they have pledged towards a £13m rescue package has yet to materialise.· Lilley asked to be put into receivership after a financial rescue package did not receive full support from its bankers.· One of the fastest-growing companies of the 1980s, the now-ailing Saatchi & Saatchi, announced a second financial rescue package.
· She explained the need to raise an immediate rescue party and return to Great Ararat.· The rescue party of volunteers decided on a different solution.· Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants.· And just outside the garden I ran into this rescue party coming out to find me.· Either they would send a rescue party, or they would adhere to quarantine regulations and he would be marooned on Tarvaras.
· Only eight weeks into the job, Mr Gerstner is still concocting a rescue plan.· Without a working budget, or a viable rescue plan, the organization continued its disastrous descent into the financial sinkhole.· If the situation is not resolved within months, the rescue plan might cease to be viable.· In November 1808 ten of her friends met in London to formulate a rescue plan.· He set about drawing up a rescue plan amid a political storm that resulted in the resignation of two cabinet ministers.· Members have also rejected a £6.7m rescue plan.· The banks have been given only two more days to agree to support the receiver's rescue plan.
· His only chance of avoiding a council bed and breakfast hostel is a mortgage rescue scheme.· Mortgage rescue schemes are an important part of that initiative.
· At least Eline had learned that there had been no fatalities during the sea rescue though one or two men had been injured.· A full air sea rescue was put into operation, involving St Mary's lifeboat and a helicopter from Valley.
· We know for a fact that the area was sealed off and that army and rescue services were called to the scene.· She'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn, but maybe they wouldn't be coming after all.· The rescue services have more important things to do than look for windsurfers who are comfortably seated in the bar!· The union acts as an industry police force and a rescue service for its members.· Being in the vicinity, I helped remove the casualty's kit before ditching my own in order to phone the rescue services.· He gave warning that centralising the rescue service as planned by the Government, had to affect response time.· It is the first time aviation experts and the rescue services have held a joint conference on the importance of working together.· The rescue service works like this: You are given a reference number and a free phone number when you register.
· Vicki is praying that the rescue ship she knows is on its way will arrive in time to save them all.· The rescue ship, full of supplies, was in sight!
· About the immense difficulty that would undoubtedly be experienced by rescue teams.· Volunteers play a vital role on the water rescue team, Fonder said.· The local coast rescue team used ropes to pull them away from danger after the alarm was raised.· A helicopter rescue team found her barely off the trail and only about a quarter-mile from the top of El Capitan.· The search and rescue team have been out looking for you.· Members of the rescue team were elated when they landed at Scapa Pier near Kirkwall last night.· We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly, straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team.· The New Brighton-based rescue team plucked five people from the water when the incident happened near Seacombe.
· Because of business commitments he's cut down on his rescue work.· I think of it as rescue work.· Repression through fear, combined with rescue work for the fallen, was no longer enough.· The delay in starting rescue work has had one welcome effect.· If the meticulous and demanding rescue work succeeds, birdwatchers using the hide will be in for a treat.· Writing is your imagination's rescue work.· Another factor in the slowing of the rescue work was the condition of the air in which the men had to work.· While hard-pressed police were occupied in rescue work, the heartless thieves descended on local shopping centres.
· The driver, from Kempsey near Worcester, had jumped clear and was found by rescue workers.· There are also two people who served as rescue workers after the Oklahoma City bombing.· Before the car could be moved, rescue workers had to shore up the building, which was in danger of collapse.· Ginter was unconscious when rescue workers loaded him on to a stretcher.· Could Sandra please not say a word to anyone, not even the women or the other rescue workers?· But Tuesday afternoon rescue workers were still searching the rubble, cordoned off by dozens of uniformed soldiers and police.· The immediate priority for rescue workers is to reach the millions of people still stranded.· The woman, who spotted the boy in trouble, yelled to him to sit still while she called rescue workers.
VERB· Breeze tried next, but failed, so Chignell had to be called to the rescue.· After searching two days for the body, authorities called off the rescue operation.· I mean, did Gephardt call for making the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization?· We must even be judicious when hiking though the outback, where objects sometimes call out for rescue.· The woman, who spotted the boy in trouble, yelled to him to sit still while she called rescue workers.
· Lady Dorman-Smith, the wife of the Governor, came to our rescue with two generous gifts of money.· Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue.· Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.· Lorenzini comes to the rescue but demands custody of Pinocchio in return.· In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue.· The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.· In theory, the law should come to your rescue.· Chief Black Elk, who welcomed Mormon trade, came to the rescue by offering squatting rights.
· In 1982 they called on Mr Morton to help rescue Guinness Peat, which was close to collapse.· Like the others, he is expected to help rescue survivors and then turn himself back in.· Also, people volunteer to help rescue a child trapped in a well and to help in other rescues.
· He had ridden to her rescue like a knight on a white charger and now he was insulting her.· If it isn't, heaven knows who will ride to the rescue of the firm.· So poor old Pater rode to the rescue once again.
· And just outside the garden I ran into this rescue party coming out to find me.
· People rushed to her rescue, picked her up.· Perhaps he could retire injured so that Rachel would rush to his rescue.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1when someone or something is rescued from danger: - Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
- And I could see no more, until the cavalry came to the rescue.
- But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.
- But once again ingenuity came to the rescue.
- In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue.
- Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue.
- The designer from Mark Wilkinson, Debbie Weston, came to the rescue and suggested custom-painted ones.
- The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.
a daring rescue at searescue of Storms delayed the rescue of the crash victims. Rescue workers arrived at the scene two hours later.rescue mission/operation The rescue operation proved successful.2come to the/somebody’s rescue a)to save someone who is in a dangerous situation: A lifeboat came to the yachtsman’s rescue. b)to help someone who is having problems or difficulties: Carol’s brother came to the rescue and sent her $1000.COLLOCATIONSadjectivesa dramatic rescue· A woman is in hospital following a dramatic rescue from her blazing flat.a daring rescue· The lifeboat crew has been honoured for a daring rescue on the Cleveland coast.verbsattempt/mount a rescue (=try to rescue someone)· The stormy conditions made it impossible to mount a rescue.rescue + NOUNa rescue attempt/effort· One fire fighter was severely burned in the rescue attempt.a rescue operation/mission· A major rescue operation was launched yesterday after two divers were reported missing.a rescue worker· Rescue workers are searching through the rubble for survivors.a rescue team· He was still conscious when the rescue team arrived.a rescue helicopter/boat/ship· A rescue helicopter is on its way.a rescue plan/package (=plan to save a company, economy etc that is in trouble)· They drew up a rescue plan that involved restructuring the firm.