To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
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.
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
To clean someone's clock; to make incapable of action; to thwart.
To kill someone.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, clock.