Definition

1. Noun:
   • The act or skill of saving a person's life, especially from drowning: "Lifesaving" refers to the techniques and actions used to rescue someone, particularly from water-related emergencies where there is a risk of death.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The lifeguard's quick lifesaving prevented a tragedy at the beach.
  • Basic lifesaving skills, like CPR, are valuable for everyone to learn.

Advanced Usage

• As a modifier: "Lifesaving" is often used as an adjective to describe equipment, techniques, or actions.
  • The coast guard performed a lifesaving operation in stormy seas.
  • This drug is a lifesaving medication for patients with this condition.

Variants and Related Words

• Lifesaver (n): A person or thing that saves a life.
  • The new defibrillator in the office is a real lifesaver.
• Life-saving (adj): An alternative hyphenated spelling when used as an adjective before a noun.
  • He received a life-saving transplant.

Synonyms

• Rescue: The act of saving someone from a dangerous or distressing situation.
• Salvage: Saving something, especially a ship or its cargo, from loss at sea (can be used figuratively for saving a situation).

Related Phrases

• To perform/save a life: To carry out an action that prevents someone's death.
  • The doctor managed to save the patient's life.
• A matter of life and death: A situation of extreme urgency and importance.
  • Getting the supplies to the disaster zone was a matter of life and death.

Related Idioms

• To throw a lifeline: To give help to someone who is in a very difficult situation.
  • The scholarship threw a lifeline to the struggling student.

Noun

1. saving the lives of drowning persons
   • he took a course in lifesaving