List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 340

SYNONYMS: save, rescue, reclaim, redeem, deliver.
These verbs are compared in the sense of freeing a person or thing from danger, evil, confinement, or servitude.

Save, the most general, applies to an act of keeping safe or preserving from danger, harm, or the consequences of evil: The smallpox vaccine has saved many lives. A police officer saved the tourist from being cheated.
Rescue usually implies saving from immediate harm or danger by direct action: rescue a rare manuscript from a fire; rescued sailors from a torpedoed ship.
Reclaim, applied to people, means to bring back, as from error to virtue or to right or proper conduct; it can also mean to return a thing to usefulness or productivity: We will reclaim the gold used in the process.
To redeem is to free someone from captivity or the consequences of sin or error or to save something from pawn or from deterioration or destruction; the term can imply the expenditure of money or effort: He redeemed his ring from the pawnbroker.
Deliver in this comparison applies to liberating people from something such as misery, peril, error, or evil: Deliver me from evil.