To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
To recover forcibly.
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.
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 surpass; to better.
To kill, bump off.
To beat convincingly; to thrash.
To hit, slap or strike.
To share or parcel out (often with up).
An attempt, a chance, a turn, a go, originally an attempt to beat someone or something.
The sound of a heavy strike.
The strike itself.
The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
The stroke itself, regardless of its successful impact.