rescue
verb (used with object)
to free or deliver from confinement, danger, or difficulty: She rescued me from an awkward conversation.
am rescuing
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present progressiveof rescue (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"I am doing the King a service," he said: "I am rescuing him from false friends: and, as to my place, that shall never be a gag to prevent me from speaking my mind."
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
"Instead of which, here I am rescuing beleaguered damsels, like the hero of a dime novel, on two thousand a year."
From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland
