ice vs rescue

ice

verb
  • To murder. 

  • To become ice; to freeze. 

  • To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc. 

  • To make icy; to freeze. 

  • To put out a team for a match. 

  • To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing. 

  • To cool with ice, as a beverage. 

noun
  • Water in frozen (solid) form. 

  • An artifact that has been smuggled, especially one that is either clear or shiny. 

  • A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar. 

  • One or more diamonds and jewelry, especially blood diamonds. 

  • Any substance having the appearance of ice. 

  • Money paid as a bribe. 

  • The area where a game of ice hockey is played. 

  • Elephant or rhinoceros ivory that has been poached and sold on the black market. 

  • Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide. 

  • Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form, when discussing the composition of e.g. a planet as an ice giant vs a gas giant. 

  • Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs. 

rescue

verb
  • To recover forcibly. 

  • To achieve something positive under difficult conditions. 

  • To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. 

  • To save from any violence, danger or evil. 

  • To deliver by arms, notably from a siege. 

  • To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. 

noun
  • A rescuee. 

  • A liberation, freeing. 

  • An act or episode of rescuing, saving. 

  • The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril 

  • A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded 

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