Rescuings

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. The act of saving someone or something from danger or distress
2. The process of retrieving individuals or items from a perilous situation
3. Performing actions intended to assist and recover beings in need of help

Etymology: "Rescuings" is the plural of "rescuing", the form of the verb "rescue" used as a noun for acts of saving someone or something from danger. Each instance of the act counts as one of these, so a newspaper might report several rescuings in a single storm. The plural form follows the regular English pattern of adding "s" to the noun, and the base word "rescue" is the one whose history gives the term its meaning.

Synonyms: saving, recovering, retrieving, liberating, delivering

Antonyms: abandoning, neglecting, losing