verb
- Refrain from harming.
- Save or relieve from an experience or action.
- usage: "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"
- synonyms: spare
- Give up what is not strictly needed.
- usage: "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
- synonyms: spare, give up, part with, dispense with
- Use frugally or carefully.
- synonyms: spare
adjective
- Avoiding waste.
- usage: "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
- synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, stinting
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