rescue
verb (used with object)
to free or deliver from confinement, danger, or difficulty: She rescued me from an awkward conversation.
rescued
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past participleof rescue.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof rescue.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
rescueverb (used with object)to free or deliver from confinement, danger, or difficulty: She rescued me from an awkward conversation.
Example Sentences
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Two similar periods to the post-Liberation Day bounce are the ones after hedge fund Long Term Capital Management had to be rescued in 1998 and the Covid panic in 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Consumers who believed they were giving rescued dogs a home instead became unwitting financial supporters of the very breeding industry they sought to avoid,” the lawsuit said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Trade Desk rescued executives’ stock options from a dive in the share price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Today, the bears are now adjusting to a totally different world among the trees and grass at Wild Ireland, a sanctuary for rescued animals in County Donegal.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Since they’d rescued him from the giants, he’d started to regain his strength, but he was still painfully thin.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
