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v. To rescue from harm, danger, or loss.

v. To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem.

v. To keep in a safe condition; safeguard.

v. To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve.

v. To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it.

v. To avoid spending (money or time) in an amount less than what circumstances normally require: saved $25 at the sale; saved 15 minutes by taking a shortcut.

v. To set aside for future use; store.

v. To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare: save one's eyesight.

v. To make unnecessary; obviate: Your taking the trunk to the attic has saved me an extra trip.

v. Sports To prevent (a goal) from being scored by an opponent.

v. To preserve a victory in (a game).

v. Baseball To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.

v. Computer Science To copy (a file) from a computer's main memory to a storage medium.

verb-intransitive. To avoid waste or expense; economize.

verb-intransitive. To accumulate money: saving for a vacation.

verb-intransitive. To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.

n. Sports An act that prevents an opponent from scoring.

n. Baseball A preservation by a relief pitcher of another pitcher's win.

idiom. save (one's) breath To refrain from a futile appeal or effort: Save your breath; you can't dissuade them.

preposition. With the exception of; except: "No man enjoys self-reproach save a masochist” ( Philip Wylie).

conjunction. Were it not; except: The house would be finished by now, save that we had difficulty contracting a roofer.

conjunction. Unless.

n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.

n. When a relief pitcher comes into a game with a 3 run or less lead, and his team wins while continually being ahead.

n. A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.

n. The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.

v. To help (somebody) to survive, or keep (somebody) from harm.

v. To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

v. To store for future use.

v. To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

v. To obviate or make unnecessary.

v. To write a file to disk or other storage medium.

v. To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.

v. To economize or avoid waste.

v. To accumulate money or valuables.

v. To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).

preposition. Except; with the exception of.

conjunction. unless; except

n. The herb sage, or salvia.

v. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger.

v. Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.

v. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.

v. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.

v. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.

v. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.

verb-intransitive. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.

Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.

conjunction. Except; unless.

To preserve from danger, injury, loss, destruction, or evil of any kind; wrest or keep from impending danger; rescue: as, to save a house from burning, or a man from drowning; to save a family from ruin.

To deliver from the power and penal consequences of sin; rescue from sin and spiritual death.

To deliver; defend.

To spare: as, to save one's self much trouble and expense.

To use or preserve with frugal care; keep fresh or good, as for future use; husband: as, to save one's clothes; to save one's strength for a final effort.

To avoid, curtail, or lessen; especially, to lessen waste in or of; economize: as, to save time, expense, or labor.

To lay by, little by little, and as the result of frugal care; lay up; hoard: as, he has saved quite a good sum out of his scanty earnings.

To take advantage of; utilize; avoid missing or losing; be in time for; catch: as, to save the tide.

To prevent the occurrence, use, or necessity of; obviate: as, a stitch in time saves nine.

Synonyms and To redeem.

To protect.

To be economical; keep from spending; spare.

To be capable of preservation: said of fish: as, to save well.

Except; not including; leaving out of account; unless.

n. The herb sage or salvia.

v. retain rights to

n. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring

v. make unnecessary an expenditure or effort

v. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of

v. refrain from harming

v. accumulate money for future use

v. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use

v. spend less; buy at a reduced price

v. bring into safety

v. save from ruin, destruction, or harm

v. save from sins

v. record data on a computer

"Instead of a desperate search to find the one great idea that will save us from ecological disaster, we are being invited to a transformation of individual and social goals that will bring us closer to the reality of interdependent life in a variegated world – whether or not we find we can 'save the planet '."

saved    saves    saving   

hold    book    reserve    prevention    bar    preclude    forestall    prevent    forbid    foreclose   

protect    keep    prevent    stint    preserver    to save appearances    to save alive    to save one's bacon    to save clean    save your reverence   

lay away    stash    cache    hive up    hoard    squirrel away    skimp    scrimp    stint    deliver   

save vs.    save as   

deliver    spare    rescue    reserve    prevent    protect    preserve    except    excepting    deducting   

Dave    Wave    aftershave    behave    brave    cave    concave    crave    deprave    engrave   

outlay    saving    expenditure    contribution    disbursement    remuneration    disadvantage    appropriation    dividend    reduction