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▸ verb: To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
▸ verb: To recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
▸ verb: (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
▸ verb: (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
▸ verb: (biology, genetics) To restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
▸ verb: To salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
▸ verb: To fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
▸ verb: To adopt (an animal).
▸ noun: An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
▸ noun: A liberation, freeing.
▸ noun: (law, largely obsolete) The act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
▸ noun: The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
▸ noun: A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
▸ noun: A rescuee.
▸ noun: A city in California.
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saving,
deliver,
deliverance,
delivery,
rescuer,
salvage,
escape,
airlift,
shelter,
lifesaving,
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