英语词汇“rescue”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	rescue
释义	res·cue I. \ˈre(ˌ)skyü\ verb (rescued ; rescued ; rescuing \-_skyəwiŋ, -(ˌ)skyüiŋ\ ; rescues) Etymology: Middle English rescuen, rescowen, from Middle French rescourre, from Old French, from re- + escourre to shake out, wrest away, from Latin excutere, from ex- + -cutere (from quatere to shake) — more at quash *transitive verb* 1. a. : to free from confinement, violence, danger, or evil : liberate from actual restraint : save, deliver < rescue a prisoner of war from the enemy > < rescued a drowning child > b. : to take forcibly from the custody of the law 2. : to recover by force: as a. : to deliver (as a place besieged) by force of arms b. : to effect a rescue of (a prize) 3. : to bid over a bid by (one's partner or oneself) in a card game on the assumption that the previous bid would entail a serious penalty *intransitive verb* : to bring about deliverance Synonyms: deliver, redeem, ransom, reclaim, save: rescue indicates freeing from capture, assault, evil, death, or destruction by ready prompt action < rescuing a soldier from the enemy > < rescuing the guards held as hostages > < the seamen rescued from the lost ship > < rescue his nation from defeat > deliver signifies setting free from confinement, suffering, tribulation, embarrassment, or vexation < delivered the prisoners from the Bastille > < deliver us from evil — Mt 6:13 (Revised Standard Version) > < the population of Russia had only just been delivered, nominally at least, from serfdom — Havelock Ellis > redeem applies to releasing from captivity, retribution, sequestration, or deterioration by some necessary expenditure < let me redeem my brothers both from death — Shakespeare > < he labored for eighty years, redeeming them to Christianity from their magical and bloodthirsty practices — Norman Douglas > < a plot of land redeemed from the heath, and after long and laborious years brought into cultivation — Thomas Hardy > ransom usually applies specifically to buying a captive out of his captivity < ransom a child held by kidnappers > < back in Quebec with a number of Iroquois captives whom he had ransomed — J.J.Wynne > reclaim indicates a bringing back or returning to a former sound, good, or valuable condition of something that has undergone error, degenerating, waste, neglect, or abandonment < the priest labored zealously to reclaim those of the redmen that had listened to Baptist teachings — Louise P. Kellogg > < I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now — Charles Dickens > < a large-scale program of reclaiming land and of bringing new land into cultivation — H.S.Truman > save is a general term that can be used in place of any of the preceding; it may imply a freeing from danger, evil, or trial and a maintaining or preserving for continued existence, security, use, or service < saved a tired swimmer from drowning > < firemen saving the rear wing of the house > II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English rescue, rescowe, from rescuen, rescowen to rescue 1. : an act of rescuing : deliverance or aid in delivering from restraint, violence, or danger < three rescues to his credit > < come to their rescue > 2. a. : the forcible taking of a person or goods from the custody of the law (as in retaking or taking away against law of things lawfully distrained or in the forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment) b. (1) : the retaking of a prize by those captured with it resulting in the restoration of the property to the owner by the effect of the right of postliminium — compare recapture (2) : succor rendered by the arrival of outside help before the succored party is entirely overcome
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