rescueless

comparative more rescueless · superlative most rescueless

1. Without rescue or release.

   Did I want to put myself in a rescueless place to see how I would respond?

   2016, Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries: A Memoir

   2 more examples

   Nobody answeres the phone at Blood Island, so us Negresses are consigned to sit rescueless amid the smell of squandered blood, bowel movements, and disinfectant in a hospital my mother refused to give birth in and Eddie refused to die in.

   2009, Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, page 130

   Ominipotent Gus who had led her out of the floods and rescued the beasts! Rescueless himself, he tumbled to the boards.

   2014, Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea