Rescue

1. The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
2. 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.
3. The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
4. The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
5. The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.