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Plural of rescue

regular plural

The plural of rescue is rescues.

Forms of rescue

Singularrescue /ˈɹɛs.kjuː/
Pluralrescues
Countablecountable and uncountable

Rescues in a sentence

  • Guests marveled that they kept making more rescues.2023 May 5, Declan Walsh, “‘Only Word for Them Is Heroes’: How 2 Students Rescued Dozens in Sudan”, in The New York Times
  • Rescues in IDLH conditions can be extremely hazardous.From the entry IDLH
  • She wandered around looking at the rescues and then chose this tuxie kitten I'd just put up for adoption.2016, Leann Sweeney, The Cat, the Collector, and the Killer, page 75. From the entry tuxie
  • Yesterday's hot weather saw bayside beaches and coastal resorts packed, with surf lifesavers reporting 45 rescues across the state.2009 January 14, Mark Buttler, “Teenager drowns off Edithvale Beach”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2009. From the entry bayside
  • There have been many rescues made as a result of an aggressive search team who went in without a hoseline to make the grab.2022, Mark van der Feyst, Matt Wehrle, Rob Wiggins, The Tactical Firefighter. From the entry grab

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 plural of rescue

What is the plural of rescue?
The plural of rescue is rescues.
Is rescue countable?
Rescue is a countable and uncountable noun.

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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