rescueres‧cue1 /ˈreskjuː/ ●●○ S3 W3 verb [transitive] 
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.
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.