Rescue vs Restore - What's the difference?
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To save from any violence, danger or evil.
To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
To recover forcibly
To deliver by arms, notably from a siege
(figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
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An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
A liberation, freeing.
The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
A rescuee.
To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
To bring back to a previous condition or state.
* Bible, Mark iii. 5
* Prior
To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
* Bible, Genesis xx. 7
* Milton
* Dryden
To give in place of, or as restitution for.
* Bible, Exodus xxii. 1
(computing) To recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
(obsolete) To make good; to make amends for.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between rescue and restore
is that rescue is to save from any violence, danger or evil while restore is to reestablish, or bring back into existence.As nouns the difference between rescue and restore
is that rescue is an act or episode of rescuing, saving while restore is the act of recovering data or a system from a backup.As a proper noun Rescue
is a city in California (zip code 95672.rescue
English
Verb
(rescu) (transitive)- ''The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche
- to rescue a prisoner from the enemy
- Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.
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Synonyms
* free, deliver, pull out of the fire, save the day * (to free from confinement) liberate, release * (to free from restraint) release, unshackle, untie * (to recover forcibly) recapture, retake * (to deliver by arms) liberate * (to rescue from evil or sin) redeem, saveAntonyms
* (all senses) abandon, ignore * endanger, imperil * (to free from confinement) enslave, incarcerate * (to free from restraint) bind, constrict, hamper, inhibit, obstruct, preclude * (to recover forcibly) kidnap * (to deliver by arms) arrest, capture * (to rescue from evil or sin) corrupt, depraveDerived terms
* rescuee * rescuerNoun
(en noun)- ''The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders
- The dog proved a rescue with some behavior issues.
Usage notes
* Often used attributively as an adjective, e.g. "rescue equipment".Derived terms
* come to someone's rescue * rescue dog * rescue missionAnagrams
*restore
English
Verb
(restor)- to restore harmony among those who are at variance
- He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
- and his hand was restored whole as the other
- our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
- Now therefore restore the man his wife.
- Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
- The father banished virtue shall restore .
- He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
- But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored , and sorrows end.