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Adopting vs Rescuing - What's the difference?

adopting | rescuing |

As verbs the difference between adopting and rescuing

is that adopting is while rescuing is .

As a noun rescuing is

the act of effecting a rescue.

adopting

English

Verb

(head)

    • rescuing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of effecting a rescue.
  • * (John Galsworthy)
    • Betty — so stout, and with that rheumatism in her leg — did she ever think of herself? Or Aunt Rosamund, with her perpetual rescuings of lost dogs, lame horses, and penniless musicians?

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