RESCUED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rescued mean? 

• RESCUED (adjective)
  The adjective RESCUED has 1 sense:

1. delivered from danger

  Familiarity information: RESCUED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESCUED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Delivered from danger

Synonyms:

reclaimed; rescued

Similar:

saved (rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin)

 Context examples 

I have said that the one person from whom we had had some sign of sympathy in our attempts to get away was the young chief whom we had rescued.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had been so long without money that, like a rescued starving man who cannot let the unconsumed food out of his sight, Martin could not keep his hand off the silver.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As she filled away and heeled, the arm-chair began to slide across the cabin floor, and I sprang for it just in time to prevent the rescued woman from being spilled out.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She had grown so fond of the big Lion she was glad he had been rescued.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The study also shows that neurons infected by LACV can be rescued by interferon, a powerful antiviral protein.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

Molecularly, BTG2 expression induces hypophosphorylation of RB and G1 arrest which could be rescued by overexpression of cyclin D1.

(BTG Cell Cycle Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

In addition, electrical responses recorded from photoreceptors rescued by RPE patches were normal; whereas photoreceptors treated with a control empty scaffold had died.

(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

When L-arginine was injected into HSD mice directly, the defects in cognition were also rescued.

(Hold the salt: gut reaction may impair the brains of mice, National Institutes of Health)

He was still limping slightly at the time he rescued Buck, but with the continued warm weather even the slight limp left him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Jo rescued his babies, and marched up and down, with one on each arm, as if already initiated into the mysteries of babytending, while Laurie laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)