Synonyms:
rescued, reclaimed
Meaning: delivered from danger
Usage examples
The sailors rescued it and opened it with interest.
And they flew to the fields and forests with songs of thanks to the good knook who had rescued them.
Wasn't it enough to have offered the lady his seat, to have rescued her from an accident, perhaps from death?
"I have not forgotten how you rescued me from the eagle; I promised to repay you, I think I have done so to-day."
But he, who other times had rescued me In other peril, soon as I had mounted, Within his arms encircled and sustained me,
Mary began her story with the incident of her having been pursued by some one, and rescued by the blacksmith, whom she told her listeners she had known in London.
In crossing a shallow part of the river, his black boy was snapped up by an alligator; but the Governor immediately dismounted, rescued the boy out of his mouth, and slew him.
The men who had taken up and rescued Brasidas, brought him into the town with the breath still in him: he lived to hear of the victory of his troops, and not long after expired.
'Well,' said Dick, brutally, 'you're better as you are, instead of making love to some drunken beast in the street.' He felt that he had rescued Torpenhow from great temptation.
When he cut down the second leaf he rescued the Glass Cat, and Bungle was so frightened that she scampered away like a streak and soon had joined Ojo, when she sat beside him panting and trembling.