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Meaning
Verb
●
To
prevent
harm
or difficulty.
To help (somebody) to
survive
, or
rescue
(somebody
or something
) from harm.
To keep (something)
safe
; to
safe
guard.
To
spare
(somebody) from
effort
, or from something undesirable.
●
In Christianity:
To
prevent
harm
or difficulty.
To
redeem
or
protect
someone from
eternal
damnation.
●
In Sports:
To
prevent
harm
or difficulty.
To
catch
or
deflect
(a
shot
at goal).
●
In Baseball:
To
prevent
harm
or difficulty.
To
preserve
, as a
relief pitcher
, (a
win
of another
pitcher
's on
one's
team) by
defending
the lead
held
when the other
pitcher
left
the game.
●
To
put aside
, to avoid.
To
store
for future use.
To
conserve
or
prevent
the
wasting
of.
To
obviate
or make unnecessary.
To
economize
or
avoid
waste.
To
accumulate
money or valuables.
To
refrain
from
romantic
or (especially in
later
use)
sexual
relationships
until one is
married
or
is with
a
suitable
partner.
To
avoid
saying
something.
●
In Computing & Video games:
To
put aside
, to avoid.
To
write
a
file
to
disk
or other
storage
medium.
Noun
●
An
instance
of
preventing
(further)
harm
or difficulty.
In various
sports
, a
block
that
prevents
an
opponent
from scoring.
An
action
that
brings
one
back out
of an
awkward
situation.
●
In Baseball:
An
instance
of
preventing
(further)
harm
or difficulty.
A
successful
attempt
by a
relief pitcher
to
preserve
the
win
of another
pitcher
on
one's
team.
●
In Professional wrestling:
An
instance
of
preventing
(further)
harm
or difficulty.
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.
●
In Computing:
The
act
, process, or result of
saving
data
to a
storage
medium.
●
In Role-playing games:
A
saving
throw.
Prep
●
Except; with the exception of.
Conj
●
unless; except
Name
●
A
river
in
southeastern
Africa that
flows
about 400 km (250
mi
) from
south
of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.
●
A
river
in
southern
France that
flows
about 143 km (89
mi
) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.
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Synonyms
Barring
Except
Write
Rescue
Rescuing
Except For
Save For
Put By
Related
Conserve
Protect
Download
Create
Edit
Click
Select
Backup
Earn
Secure
Upload
Spend
Recover
Preserve
Redeem
Button
Get
Restore
Send
Delete
Keep
Choose
Tab
Offload
Provide
Store
Waste
Update
Donate
Cost
Finish
Find
Check
Kill
Buy
Assist
Login
Reduce
File
Reset
Restart
Icon
Card
Catch
Tap
Manage
Box
Safeguard
Free Up
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Rhymes
Nave
Rave
Lave
Cave
Fave
Gave
Save
Pave
Cave
Wave
Shave
Suave
Slave
Stave
Trave
Knave
Crave
Awave
Waive
Brave
Grave
Maeve
Behave
Glaive
Enclave
Forgave
Engrave
Deprave
Enslave
They'Ve
Misbehave
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