rescuer

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res·cue

(rĕs′kyo͞o)

tr.v. res·cued, res·cu·ing, res·cues

1. To cause to be free from danger, imprisonment, or difficulty; save. See Synonyms at save¹.

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

1. An act of rescuing; a deliverance.

2. Law The criminal offense of removing a person or property.

[Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescourre : re-, re- + escourre, to shake (from Latin excutere : ex-, ex- + quatere, to shake; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots).]

res′cu·a·ble adj.

res′cu·er n.

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Noun	1.	rescuer - a person who rescues you from harm or danger deliverer, savior, saviour messiah, christ - any expected deliverer benefactor, helper - a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)
	2.	rescuer - someone who saves something from danger or violence recoverer, saver individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" salvager, salvor - someone who salvages succorer, succourer - someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty

Translations

مُنْقِذ

zachránce

redningsmand

Retter

διασώστης

sauveteur

mentő

bjargvættur, björgunarmaîur

salvatore

redningskvinne redningsmann

kurtarıcı

援救者救星

rescuer

[ˈreskjʊəʳ] N → salvador(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

rescuer

[ˈreskjʊə^r] n → sauveteur mrescue services npl → services mpl de secoursrescue worker n → secouriste mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

rescuer

n (who saves sb) → Retter(in) m(f); (who frees sb) → Befreier(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

rescuer

[ˈrɛskjʊəʳ] n → soccorritore/trice

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

rescue

(ˈreskjuː) verb

to get or take out of a dangerous situation, captivity etc. The lifeboat was sent out to rescue the sailors from the sinking ship.

noun

(an) act of rescuing or state of being rescued. The lifeboat crew performed four rescues last week; After his rescue, the climber was taken to hospital; They came quickly to our rescue.

ˈrescuer noun

rescuer

n socorrista mf, rescatador -ra mf

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The burnoose covered the hairy body so that Jane Clayton believed that a human arm supported her, and from the extremity of hopelessness a great hope sprang into her breast that at last she was in the keeping of a rescuer.

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He did not answer at once and her heart rose in her breast as it filled with the hope that her brave rescuer might be the same Roger de Conde who had saved her from the hirelings of Peter of Colfax but a few short weeks since.

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'It is a strong part, the rescuer, but I'm not sure the other wouldn't suit my style better.

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I could not withstand that look, nor could I, on second thought, have deserted my rescuer without giving as good an account of myself in his behalf as he had in mine.

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The prisoners had already discovered him, and with wide eyes filled with wonder and with hope they watched their would-be rescuer. Now he halted not ten paces from the unconscious Manyuema.

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The guard had closed around them in vain effort to disarm them, when "A rescuer" shouted Will Stutely's clear voice on one side of them, and "A rescue!" bellowed Little John's on the other; and down through the terror-stricken crowd rushed fourscore men in Lincoln green, their force seeming twice that number in the confusion.

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The conditions from which she had fled were intolerable, past speaking of, past believing: she was young, she was frightened, she was desperate-- what more natural than that she should be grateful to her rescuer? The pity was that her gratitude put her, in the law's eyes and the world's, on a par with her abominable husband.

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"Come, first of all," said Athos to D'Artagnan, "my friend, that I may shake hands with you -- you, our rescuer -- you, the true hero of us all."

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A man's hand reached over a canoe-side and dragged him in by the scruff of the neck, and, although he snarled and struggled to bite his rescuer, he was not so much enraged as was he torn by the wildest solicitude for Skipper.

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He staggered to his feet and looked down upon his rescuer, who had raised himself upon his elbow, and was smiling faintly at the buzz of congratulation and of praise which broke from the squires around him.

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She saw that her would-be rescuer was young and strong featured--all together a very fine specimen of manhood; and to her great wonderment it was soon apparent that he was no unequal match for the great mountain of muscle that he fought.

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the stranger told his rescuers a pitiful tale of privation, hardships, and torture, extending over a period of ten years.