rescue
verb (used with object)
to free or deliver from confinement, danger, or difficulty: She rescued me from an awkward conversation.
unrescued
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a word derived from
rescue.
Example Sentences
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Rather it was like the closing of a whirlpool over the unrescued heads of a vast shipwreck's bravest stay-behinds.
From Time Magazine Archive
If friendless and unrescued, he is generally put into a railway omnibus and taken to Paris.
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
Perhaps the same stern fidelity to a stern promise was the reason why Lady Glamis was allowed to go to the stake unrescued.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
The bold Buccleugh, who carried Kinmont Willie out of Carlisle Castle, would not have left the Maid unrescued at Beaulieu.
From The Red True Story Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
It required no second glance to discover that this was the unrescued body of a soldier who had been too daring.
From The Flag by Homer Greene
