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Past tense of rescue

regular verb

The past tense of rescue is rescued. The past participle is also rescued.

Forms of rescue

Base form (V1)rescue /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/
Past tense (V2)rescued /ˈɹɛs.kjuːd/
Past participle (V3)rescued /ˈɹɛs.kjuːd/
Present participlerescuing
Third person singularrescues

Rescued in a sentence

  • The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
  • The students’ final mission was their longest: a trip across the Nile to the city of Omdurman, at the request of Rwandan diplomats, to rescue a woman who, unlike the first they rescued, really was pregnant.2023 May 5, Declan Walsh, “‘Only Word for Them Is Heroes’: How 2 Students Rescued Dozens in Sudan”, in The New York Times
  • We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.From the entry ration
  • The lost mountaineer was easily rescued because his phone transmitted his geocoordinates to the emergency services.From the entry geocoordinate
  • There was only a remote possibility that we would be rescued as we were far outside of the regular shipping lanes.From the entry remote

Meaning of rescue

  1. verb To save from any violence, danger or evil.
  2. verb To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
  3. verb To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.

Full definition of rescue

Questions about the past tense of rescue

What is the past tense of rescue?
The past tense of rescue is rescued.
What is the past participle of rescue?
The past participle of rescue is rescued.
Is rescue a regular or irregular verb?
Rescue is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rescue (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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