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English to English noun
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recovery or preservation from loss or danger |  | Example: work is the deliverance of mankind
a surgeon's job is the saving of lives
source: wordnet30
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The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. | | source: webster1913
verb
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free from harm or evil | | source: wordnet30
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take forcibly from legal custody | | Example: rescue prisoners
source: wordnet30
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To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction. | | source: webster1913
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