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What is another word for lifelines?

Pronunciation: [lˈa͡ɪfla͡ɪnz] (IPA)

There are various synonyms for the word "lifelines". One of the synonyms is "savior" which refers to a person or thing that saves someone from a difficult situation. Another synonym is "support" which means to provide assistance to someone when they need it the most. "Rescue" is another synonym which is the act of saving someone or something from a dangerous or difficult situation. A person's "backbone" can also be used as a synonym for "lifeline" which refers to a support system that is essential for their survival. Lastly, "escape routes" can be used as a synonym for "lifelines" referring to a means of getting away from a dangerous or difficult situation.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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If for a moment they cast off or lengthened their lifelines, they were washed all over the slippery deck; and brave George Marsh, who was specially active, was bleeding from a cut on his forehead, having been dashed against a corner of the wheel-house.
"Heroes of the Goodwin Sands"
Thomas Stanley Treanor
For the convenience and safety of the bathers there were, even in the last half of September, some twenty machines, and half as many bath-men and bath-women, who waded into the water and watched that the bathers came to no harm, instead of a solitary lifeguard showing his statuesque shape as he paced the shore beside the lifelines, or cynically rocked in his boat beyond the breakers, as the custom is on Long Island.
"Literature and Life"
William Dean Howells
If there was laughter mingled with the shouts when she overturned and threw her crew into the sea, there was nothing but deep-toned enthusiasm in the prolonged cheer which hailed her on righting, for then it was fully realised, especially by seafaring men, what genuine and valuable qualities the boat possessed, and the cheers became doubly enthusiastic when the crew, grasping the lifelines which were festooned round her sides, clambered on board again, and were reseated at the oars in less than two minutes thereafter.
"Saved by the Lifeboat"
R.M. Ballantyne

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