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come to someone's rescue — we were stuck in the elevator until Marty came to our rescue Syn: help, assist, lend a helping hand to, lend a hand to, bail out; informal save someone s bacon, save someone s neck, save someone s skin … Thesaurus of popular words
come to someone's rescue — HELP, assist, lend a (helping) hand to, bail out; informal save someone s bacon, save someone s neck, save someone s skin. → rescue … Useful english dictionary
rescue — 1. verb 1) an attempt to rescue the hostages Syn: save, save from danger, save the life of, come to the aid of; free, set free, release, liberate 2) Boyd rescued his papers Syn: retrieve, recover, salvage … Thesaurus of popular words
rescue — [[t]re̱skjuː[/t]] ♦♦♦ rescues, rescuing, rescued 1) VERB If you rescue someone, you get them out of a dangerous or unpleasant situation. [V n] Helicopters rescued nearly 20 people from the roof of the burning building... [V n] He had rescued her… … English dictionary
Rescue Heroes — is a line of toys from Fisher Price that was introduced in 1999. Rescue Heroes depicts various rescue personnel and their equipment. An animated television series has also been developed with the line of toys, spanning one season on CBS (1999… … Wikipedia
rescue */*/ — I UK [ˈreskjuː] / US [ˈreskju] verb [transitive] Word forms rescue : present tense I/you/we/they rescue he/she/it rescues present participle rescuing past tense rescued past participle rescued 1) to save someone from a dangerous or unpleasant… … English dictionary
rescue — res|cue1 [ reskju ] verb transitive ** 1. ) to save someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation: The crew of the tanker were rescued just minutes before it sank in heavy seas. rescue someone from something: He had been trying to rescue a… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
rescue — res|cue1 [ˈreskju:] v [T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: rescourre, from escourre to shake out , from Latin excutere] to save someone or something from a situation of danger or harm ▪ Survivors of the crash were rescued by helicopter.… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Rescue Me (TV series) — Infobox Television show name = Rescue Me caption = Series logo rated = format = Drama runtime = approx. 45 min. picture format = 480i (SDTV) (NTSC) 576i (SDTV) (PAL) 1080i (HDTV) creator = Denis Leary Peter Tolan starring = See Characters country … Wikipedia
rescue — 1 verb (T) to save someone or something from a situation of danger or harm: Hundreds are still in the water, waiting to be rescued. | rescue sb/sth from: She died trying to rescue her children from the blaze. | a final attempt to rescue the… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
