A usually inflatable raft carried aboard a ship or airplane, used to save lives in case the vessel has to be abandoned in an emergency on the sea.
A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
A rescuee.
A liberation, freeing.
An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
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.