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1. 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. 2. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation. 3. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained. 4. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment. 5. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy. 6. recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon''s job is the saving of lives" 
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