rescue

To cause to be free from danger, imprisonment, or difficulty; save. synonym: save.

To remove (a person or property) from legal custody by force, in violation of the law.

An act of rescuing; a deliverance.

The criminal offense of removing a person or property.

To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; liberate from actual restraint; remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil: as, to rescue seamen from destruction by shipwreck.

In law, to liberate or take by forcible or illegal means from lawful custody: as, to rescue a prisoner from a constable.

To go to the rescue.

The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, danger, or any evil.

In law, the forcible or illegal taking of a person or thing out of the custody of the law.

Synonyms Release, liberation, extrication, redemption.