Recovery or preservation from loss or danger.

synonyms: deliverance, delivery, saving.

Roget 707: aid, aidance^†; assistance, help, opitulation^†, succor; support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion; coadjuvancy etc. (cooperation) 709^†.    patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy.    sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment; eutrophy; manna in the wilderness; food etc. 298; means etc. 632.    ministry, ministration; subministration^†; accommodation.    relief, rescue; help at a dead lift; supernatural aid; deus ex machina [Lat.].    supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements^†, succors, contingents, recruits; support etc. (physical) 215; adjunct, ally etc. (helper) 711.    ... show more

Roget 672: deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval^†; respite; liberation etc. 750; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness^†.    ... show more

Dutch: bevrijding, verlossing, behoud, behoudenis, heil, redding
Polish: ratunek

Free from harm or evil.

synonym: deliver.

Roget 672: deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off, bring through; tirer d'affaire [Fr.], get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve etc. (restore) 660; be rid of, get rid of.    ... show more

Roget 707: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid etc. n.. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid etc. n.; give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow; help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.    relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing^†, set on one's legs; bear through, pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reinforce, reenforce, recruit; set forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift, give a shove, give an impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance expedite, speed, quicken, hasten.    support, sustain, uphold, prop, hold up, bolster.    cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame.    serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister to^†, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of etc. 459; entertain; smooth the bed of death.    oblige, accommodate, consult the wishes of; humor, cheer, encourage.    second, stand by; back, back up; pay the piper, abet; work for, make interest for, stick up for, take up the cudgels for; take up the cause of, espouse the cause of, adopt the cause of; advocate, beat up for recruits, press into the service; squire, give moral support to, keep in countenance, countenance, patronize; lend oneself to, lend one's countenance to; smile upon, shine upon; favor, befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners of; side with etc. (cooperate) 709.    be of use to; subserve etc. (instrument) 631; benefit etc. 648; render a service etc. (utility) 644; conduce etc. (tend) 176.    ... show more

Roget 670: preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep alive; refrigerate, keep on ice; not willingly let die; bank up; nurse; save, rescue; be safe, make safe etc. 664; take care of etc. (care) 459; guard etc. (defend) 717.    stare super antiquas vias [Lat.] [Bacon]; hold one's own; hold one's ground, stand one's ground etc. (resist) 719.    embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize^†, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize [Chem], freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband etc. (store) 636.    ... show more

Roget 660: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well, get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive etc. (outlive) 110; resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.    heal, skin over, cicatrize; right itself.    restore, put back, place in statu quo [Lat.]; reinstate, replace, reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate^†, reinstall.    reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew, renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate.    redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve; rescue etc. (deliver) 672.    redress, recure^†; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate; break of; bring round, set on one's legs.    resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce etc. 163; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh etc. 689.    make whole, redintegrate^†; recoup etc. 790; make good, make all square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to rights, set straight; set up; put in order etc. (arrange) 60; refit, recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.    repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch^†, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw^†, heelpiece^†; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.    ... show more

Dutch: behouden, bevrijden, redden, verlossen

Take forcibly from legal custody.