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RESCUE

6 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

RESCUE is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

RESCUES-s 5 RESCUING 11 RESCUED-d 5
verb
  1. transitiveTo save from any violence, danger or evil.
    • The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.
  2. transitiveTo free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
    • to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
  3. transitiveTo recover forcibly, especially from a siege.
  4. figurativelytransitiveTo remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
    • Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
  5. figurativelytransitiveTo achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
  6. transitiveTo restore a particular trait in an organism that was lost or altered, especially where this loss was as the consequence of some experimental manipulation.
  7. transitiveTo salvage and restore something that has been discarded.
    • I rescued a set of antique dining chairs.
  8. transitiveTo fix a mistake made while preparing something, especially in cooking.
    • The cook rescued the sauce after it began to curdle.
  9. transitiveTo adopt (an animal).
noun
  1. countableuncountableAn act or episode of rescuing, saving.
  2. countableuncountableA liberation, freeing.
  3. countableuncountableThe act of unlawfully freeing a person, or confiscated goods, from custody.
  4. countableuncountableThe forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril.
    • The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
  5. countableuncountableA special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded.
  6. countableuncountableA rescuee.
    • The dog was a rescue with some behavior issues.