verb
- Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.
- To keep up and reserve for personal or special use.
- usage: "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
- Bring into safety.
- usage: "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
- synonyms: save, carry through, pull through, bring through
- Spend less; buy at a reduced price.
- synonyms: save
- Accumulate money for future use.
- usage: "He saves half his salary"
- Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort.
- usage: "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"
- synonyms: save, make unnecessary
- Save from sins.
- Refrain from harming.
- Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of.
- usage: "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
- Retain rights to.
- usage: "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"
- Record data on a computer.
- usage: "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
adjective
- Rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin.
- usage: "a saved soul"
- Guarded from injury or destruction.
- synonyms: protected
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