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pelastaminen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • rescue verb To save someone or something from danger, harm, or a difficult situation.
  • salvage noun The rescue of a ship, its cargo, or other property from damage or loss, or the property recovered this way.
  • salvation noun The act of saving someone or something from danger, loss, or harm; deliverance.

Senses

pelastaminen is used for these senses in English:

  • rescue An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
  • salvage The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
  • salvation The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.

rescue — full definition

  1. verb To save someone or something from danger, harm, or a difficult situation.
  2. noun An act of saving someone or something from danger.

salvage — full definition

  1. noun The rescue of a ship, its cargo, or other property from damage or loss, or the property recovered this way.
  2. verb To rescue something from damage, loss, or failure, or to make use of what can still be saved.

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