Definition of "rescue"

rescue

/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/

verb
third-person singular simple present rescues, present participle rescuing, simple past and past participle rescued
1. To save from any violence, danger or evil.
2. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
3. To recover forcibly.
4. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
5. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
6. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
  Quotations
  Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less.
  1999, Marion A. Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair, Oxford University Press
  Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
  2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC‎
  Over the course of the season, on 15 occasions the team had rescued a draw or better after falling behind, such that even against Juventus, there was an air of inevitability about the comeback.
  2013, Daniel Harris, The Promised Land: Manchester United's Historic Treble, Birlinn
noun
countable and uncountable, plural rescues
1. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
2. A liberation, freeing.
3. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
4. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
5. A rescuee.