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RESCUED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Delivered from danger
Synonyms:
reclaimed; rescued
Classified under:
Similar:
saved (rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb rescue
Context examples:
And yet you rescued me from a strange and perilous situation; you have benevolently restored me to life.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Meanwhile we can thank our lucky fate which has rescued us for a few short hours from the insufferable fatigues of idleness.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They found that 70% to 94% of mice treated with the drug were rescued from a lethal reaction caused by either infection with the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, co-infection with both a flu virus and Staphylococcus aureus, or acute liver failure.
(Drug might help treat sepsis, NIH)
The findings offer hope that amphibians and other wild animals threatened by fungal pathogens—such as bats, bees and snakes—might be capable of acquiring resistance to fungi and so might be rescued by management approaches based on herd immunity.
(Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus, NSF)
I could see that the unfortunate doctor was in the last stage of indecision, from which he was rescued by the deep, sonorous voice of the red-bearded Duke, which boomed out like a dinner-gong.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Mr. Rivers," I said, turning to him, and looking at him, as he looked at me, openly and without diffidence, "you and your sisters have done me a great service—the greatest man can do his fellow-being; you have rescued me, by your noble hospitality, from death. This benefit conferred gives you an unlimited claim on my gratitude, and a claim, to a certain extent, on my confidence. I will tell you as much of the history of the wanderer you have harboured, as I can tell without compromising my own peace of mind—my own security, moral and physical, and that of others.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her complexion was sallow; and her features small, without beauty, and naturally without expression; but a lucky contraction of the brow had rescued her countenance from the disgrace of insipidity, by giving it the strong characters of pride and ill nature.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Four men trapped under as much as 10 feet of bricks, mud and other debris have been rescued in Nepal thanks to a new search-and-rescue technology developed in partnership by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
(DHS and NASA Technology Helps Save Four in Nepal Earthquake Disaster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Here we were rescued from the limited attractions of the local inn by Mr. Shortman, the representative of the British and Brazilian Trading Company.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As I passed to leeward of the galley on my way aft I was approached by the engineer we had rescued.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
