rescuer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who saves someone or something from danger, harm, or captivity

   The exhausted climber thanked each rescuer who had joined the search.

Formed from rescue + the agent suffix -er. Rescue entered English through Anglo-French rescure, from re- + escure ("to shake off, drive away"), ultimately from Latin excutere. A rescuer is literally the person who performs a rescue.

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