The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc.
Delivery in childbirth.
The act of delivering or conveying something.
Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
The money from the sale of rescued goods.
The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
The compensation paid to the rescuers.
Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
to rescue.
To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
To perform summary execution.
to put to use.