rescuing

Verb

rescue (third-person singular simple present rescues, present participle rescuing, simple past and past participle rescued)

1. (transitive) To save from any violence, danger or evil.
   • The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.

   Synonyms:

   free, deliver, pull out of the fire

   Antonyms:

   endanger, imperil

2. (transitive) To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
   • to rescue a prisoner from the enemy

   Synonyms:

   liberate, release

   Antonyms:

   arrest, capture, kidnap

3. (transitive) To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.

   Synonyms:

   liberate, recapture, retake

   Antonyms:

   besiege, capture

4. (figuratively, transitive) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
   • Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

   Synonyms:

   redeem, save

   Antonyms:

   corrupt, deprave

5. (figuratively, transitive) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
   • Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less.1999, Marion A. Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
6. (transitive) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
   • Mecp2^(R255X/+) [mice] developed an overweight body weight phenotype by 10 weeks age and increased liver and heart weight by 8 months age. Abnormal body, liver and heart weight in Mecp2^(R255X/+) was rescued by MECP2ᵀᵍ¹ allele.2015, Meagan R. Pitcher et al., “Rett syndrome like phenotypes in the R255X Mecp2 mutant mouse are rescued by MECP2 transgene”, in Human Molecular Genetics, volume 24, number 9, →DOI, page 2664

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