0 past simple and past participle of rescue
1 to help someone or something out of a dangerous, harmful, or unpleasant situation:
The government has refused to rescue the company from bankruptcy.
The management are putting together a plan to rescue the company.
Six people were rescued by helicopter from a fishing boat in distress off the Cornish coast.
She showed enormous courage when she rescued him from the fire.
A goal just before half-time rescued the match from mediocrity.
It might be argued, though, that their position could be rescued by flagging this narrow usage with appropriate qualifiers.
Some genetic defects in the mouse can be rescued by making aggregation chimeras and thus altering the microenvironment of the defective cells.
The vivid description of the surrounding chaos makes the heroic efforts of these individuals who rescued the imperial documents even more compelling.
