different between risky vs rescue

English

Etymology

risk +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ski/
• Rhymes: -?ski

Adjective

risky (comparative riskier, superlative riskiest)

1. Dangerous, involving risks.

   Investing in this start-up company could be risky.

2. Misspelling of risqué.
   • 2012, Marlize Schmidt, That Awkward Moment..., Lulu Press, Inc (?ISBN)

     That awkward moment when someone doesn't reply to your risky text message.

   • 1889, Charles Leonard Moore, Banquet of Palacios: A Comedy, page 157:

     Have you no risky songs , no indecent ballads?

   • 2020, B. Barrett-Lennard, Mind Control Through the Mass Media: Transmission of the Politics of Inequality, B. Barrett-Lennard (?ISBN)

     Ronald Frankau (pronounced Franco) wrote a few risky songs, such as FANNY'S BEEN EVACUATED NOW with the line “and for half a pound of butter, well a lady's got to eat” ~ he got banned for it.

Synonyms

• hazardous, dangerous, perilous

Antonyms

• riskless, safe, secure

Related terms

• risk
• riskily
• riskiness
• risqué

Translations

Anagrams

• yirks

English

Etymology

From Middle English rescouen, from Old French rescoure, rescurre, rescorre; from Latin prefix re- (“re-”) + excutere, present active infinitive of excuti? (“I shake or drive out”), from ex (“out”) + quati? (“I shake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???s.kju?/

Verb

rescue (third-person singular simple present rescues, present participle rescuing, simple past and past participle rescued) (transitive)

1. To save from any violence, danger or evil.

   The well-trained team rescued everyone after the avalanche.

2. To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.

   to rescue a prisoner from the enemy.

3. To recover forcibly.
4. To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
5. (figuratively) To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.

   Traditionally missionaries aim to rescue many ignorant heathen souls.

6. (figuratively) To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
   • 1999, Marion A. Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair, Oxford University Press ?ISBN

     Jews rescued some normalcy from increasingly difficult times by assuaging their constant Angst in the family and community and making do with less.

   • 2013, Daniel Harris, The Promised Land: Manchester United's Historic Treble, Birlinn ?ISBN

     Over the course of the season, on 15 occasions the team had rescued a draw or better after falling behind, such that even against Juventus, there was an air of inevitability about the comeback.

Synonyms

• (to save from violence, danger or evil): 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, save

Antonyms

• (all senses): abandon, ignore
• (to save from violence, danger or evil): 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, deprave

Derived terms

• rescue circle
• rescue dog
• rescuee
• rescue grass
• rescue mission
• rescuer

Related terms

• quash

Translations

Noun

rescue (countable and uncountable, plural rescues)

1. An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
2. A liberation, freeing.
3. The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril

   The rescue of Jerusalem was the original motive of the Crusaders

4. A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded
5. A rescuee.

   The dog was 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 mission

Translations

References

rescue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Creuse, cereus, ceruse, cursee, recuse, secuer, secure