to free or deliver from confinement, violence, danger, or evil.

Law . to liberate or take by forcible or illegal means from lawful custody.

the act of rescuing.

noun

danger , peril

verb

harm , hurt , imperil , injure

noun

deliverance , delivery , disembarrassment , disentanglement , emancipation , exploit , extrication , feat , heroics , heroism , liberation , performance , ransom , reclaiming , reclamation , recovering , recovery , redemption , release , relief , salvage , salvation , saving

verb

bail one out , conserve , deliver , disembarrass , disentangle , emancipate , extricate , free , get off the hook , get out , get out of hock , give a break , hold over , keep , liberate , manumit , preserve , protect , pull out of the fire , ransom , recapture , recover , redeem , regain , release , retain , retrieve , safeguard , salvage , save life of , set free , spring * , unleash , unloose , save , reclaim , aid , deliverance , disenthrall , help , recovery , redemption