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
Had she been frozen in then, ten miles to the east of Southeast Cape, the expedition would have been frustrated and the whalers left unrescued.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
It was better so than to have been left alive unrescued.
From Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew
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
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
