the.com/rescue
Love with a deadline.
means To save someone or something from danger, harm, or an otherwise bad fate — swooping in before it's too late.
from From Old French 'rescoure,' built from 're-' (back, again) plus 'escourre' (to shake out, drive off), tracing to Latin 'excutere' — 'ex-' (out) plus 'quatere' (to shake). The image underneath is startlingly physical: to rescue is, at root, to shake someone free — wrenched back out of whatever grip had hold of them.
- literal root
- means to shake free, not simply save
- legal sense
- once meant forcibly freeing a prisoner, lawfully or not
- animal shelters
- turned rescue into a noun describing the animal itself
- military use
- rescue missions predate the word by millennia, obviously