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rescue - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving from danger |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, delivery, emancipation, exploit, feat, heroism, liberation, performance, ransom, reclamation, recovering, recovery, redemption, release, relief, salvage, salvation, saving, disembarrassment, disentanglement, extrication, heroics, reclaiming |
| Antonyms: | danger, peril |
| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | save from danger |
| Synonyms: | conserve, deliver, disentangle, emancipate, extricate, free, get out, keep, liberate, preserve, protect, ransom, recapture, recover, redeem, regain, release, retain, retrieve, safeguard, salvage, spring*, unleash, bail one out, disembarrass, get off the hook, get out of hock, give a break, hold over, manumit, pull out of the fire, save life of, set free, unloose |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, imperil, injure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
bailed out, expendible, extricable, reclaimed, redeemable, rescuable, retrieved, salvaged, saved, soterial
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| Main Entry: | ambulance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emergency vehicle |
| Synonyms: | rescue, transport, EMS, hospital wagon |
| Main Entry: | deliverance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liberation |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, delivery, emancipation, freeing, redemption, release, rescue, salvation, saving, extrication |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking away; getaway |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, beat, bolt, break, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, evasion, evasiveness, flight, freedom, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, slip, spring, withdrawal, AWOL, abdication, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, runaround, shunning, sidestepping |
| Antonyms: | capture, maintenance, stay |
| Main Entry: | extricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get out of a situation; relieve of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | bail out*, clear, deliver, detach, difference, differentiate, disburden, discumber, disembarrass, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, extract, free, get off the hook, get out from under, let go, let off*, liberate, loose, loosen, pull out, release, remove, rescue, resolve, save one's neck, separate, sever, untie, withdraw, wriggle out of |
| Antonyms: | entangle, involve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liberate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give freedom |
| Synonyms: | bail one out, deliver, detach, discharge, disembarrass, emancipate, free, free up, get out from under, let loose, let out*, loose, loosen, manumit, redeem, release, rescue, save, save one's neck, set free, unbind, unchain, unhook, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | hold back, limit, prevent, restrain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pardon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forgive |
| Synonyms: | absolve, accept, acquit, amnesty, bury the hatchet*, clear, condone, discharge, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, free, justify, let off*, liberate, overlook, release, remit, reprieve, rescue, spring*, tolerate, write off*, blink at, give absolution, grant amnesty, let off easy, lifeboat, suspend charges, wink at*, wipe slate clean |
| Notes: | a pardon is the act of excusing a mistake or offense; an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness |
| Antonyms: | chastise, condemn, damn, ostracize, penalize, punish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ransom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail money paid for return of possession or person |
| Synonyms: | bribe, compensation, deliverance, payment, payoff, price, redemption, release, rescue, expiation, liberation money |
| Main Entry: | ransom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay blackmail money for return of possession or person |
| Synonyms: | deliver, emancipate, extricate, free, liberate, recover, redeem, regain, release, rescue, save, buy freedom of, buy out, manumit, obtain release of, pay for release of, reprise, repurchase, set free, unchain, unfetter |
| Main Entry: | retrieve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get back |
| Synonyms: | fetch, recall, recapture, reclaim, recoup, recover, recruit, redeem, regain, repair, repossess, rescue, restore, salvage, save, bring back, reacquire, win back |
| Antonyms: | give, offer, relinquish |
| Main Entry: | snatch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grab away |
| Synonyms: | abduct, catch, clutch, collar*, gain, grapple, grasp, grip, jerk, jump, kidnap, nab, nail*, pluck, pull, rescue, seize, snag, steal, take, win, wrench, wrest, yank, clap hands on, get fingers on, make off with, spirit away |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, lift, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, subsidy, sustenance, treatment, alleviation, leg up, ministration, shot in the arm |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction, blockage |
| Main Entry: | bail out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | aid, deliver, release, relieve, rescue, spring |
| Antonyms: | ignore, refuse |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | liberate, let go |
| Synonyms: | absolve, acquit, bail, bail out*, clear, cut loose*, deliver, demobilize, discharge, disengage, dismiss, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, let off*, loose, loosen, pardon, parole, ransom, redeem, release, relieve, reprieve, rescue, save, spring*, turn out, undo, unleash, untie, disenthrall, disimprison, let loose, let off the hook, let out, manumit, put on the street, set free, turn loose, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter, unfix |
| Antonyms: | confine, enslave, hold, incarcerate, restrain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | find again |
| Synonyms: | balance, compensate, get back, offset, recapture, reclaim, recoup, recruit, redeem, regain, repair, repossess, rescue, restore, resume, retrieve, salvage, take back, bring back, catch up, make good, obtain again, reacquire, rediscover, reoccupy, replevin, replevy, retake, win back |
| Antonyms: | lose, mislay, miss |
| Main Entry: | restore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fix, make new |
| Synonyms: | build up, cure, heal, improve, make restitution, mend, modernize, rebuild, recall, reconstruct, recover, redeem, reestablish, refresh, refurbish, rehabilitate, reinforce, reinstate, reintroduce, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, repair, replace, rescue, retouch, revive, strengthen, touch up, update, bring back, make healthy, reanimate, recondition, reconstitute, reerect, reimpose, revitalize, revivify, set to rights, win back |
| Antonyms: | break, damage, destroy, hurt |
| Main Entry: | reclaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb1 |
| Definition: | bring into usable condition |
| Synonyms: | convert, recover, recover, recycle, redeem, regenerate, remodel, rescue, restore, salvage, recondition |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take burden from |
| Synonyms: | cast off, clear, cut loose, decontaminate, deliver, discharge, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, empty, excuse, exempt, extricate, put off, ransom, redeem, relieve, rescue, rid, unburden, undo, unload, unpack, disembarrass, unlade, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | burden, compel, limit, suppress |
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