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Save

verb

(past & past part. saved; pres. part. saving)

1.

Save from ruin, destruction, or harm. Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve.

2.

To keep up and reserve for personal or special use. Synonym: preserve.

3.

Bring into safety. Synonyms: bring through, carry through, pull through.

4.

Spend less; buy at a reduced price.

5.

Accumulate money for future use. Synonyms: lay aside, save up.

6.

Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort. Synonym: make unnecessary. "I'll save you the trouble" , "This will save you a lot of time"

7.

Save from sins. Synonyms: deliver, redeem.

8.

Refrain from harming. Synonym: spare.

9.

Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of. Synonyms: economise, economize. "The less fortunate will have to economize now"

10.

Retain rights to. Synonyms: hold open, keep, keep open. "Keep my seat, please" , "Keep open the possibility of a merger"

11.

Record data on a computer. Synonym: write.

noun

1.

(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring. "The relief pitcher got credit for a save"

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"Save" Quotes from Famous Books

... For that purpose they equipped a patache before leaving Macao, while another patache was despatched from Manila to join them. During the eight months while the voyage lasted, those four boats scoured all the places where the Dutch are accustomed to go, without omitting any save to enter Jacatra [51] itself. They went first to the island of Aynao [i.e., Hainan], which has four cities, and is the pearl fishery of Great China. Then they skirted the coast of Cochinchina, where the king sent to request them, through a Spaniard who was there and the superior of the mission ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume XXII, 1625-29 • Various

... Matilda; "but I don't care what we have. I'll have bread and butter and cold coffee, Maria; let us save the coffee. ...

— Opportunities • Susan Warner

... some of the seed to be offered in the four corners of the field as sacrifice, they are accustomed to repeat some mutilated Catholic prayers, which they appear to consider as efficacious as their old heathenish ones. Some have their children baptized as well, as it costs nothing; but, save in these respects, they perform no other Christian or civil obligations. They are very peaceable, neither making war with one another, nor having poisoned arrows. Instances of Cimarronese, who ...

— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.

... employed it. The Pontiff could not be expected to act as if he were two distinct persons. Nor whilst his ministers waged war, could he, whose representatives they were, be considered as neutral. For a few months that this ministry remained in office, the Pope continued to save his States by resisting the war-cry in opposition to their wishes. They were constantly at variance with him on this one great topic. His repugnance to war they could neither comprehend nor overcome. Popular demonstrations ...

— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell

... soldiers are not to leave the trenches under any circumstances.[19] At times only an attack can repulse and prevent the advance of the enemy. At times awaiting an attack means patiently waiting for death. Again, only the change to an advance may save you or your brothers, on other sections of ...

— Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy • John Spargo

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