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verb
- 1. keep safe or rescue (someone or something) from harm or danger: "they brought him in to help save the club from bankruptcy" Similar Opposite
- 2. keep and store up (something, especially money) for future use: "she had never been able to save much from her salary" Similar Opposite
noun
- 1. (in soccer and hockey) an act of preventing an opponent's scoring: "the keeper made a great save"
- 2. an act of saving data to a storage location.
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SAVE definition: 1. to stop someone or something from being killed, injured, or destroyed: 2. to keep someone from…. Learn more.
1. a. : to deliver from sin. b. : to rescue or deliver from danger or harm. c. : to preserve or guard from injury, destruction, or loss. d. : to store (data) in a computer or on a storage device (such as a CD or flash drive) save a file. Remember to save your work frequently. 2. a. : to put aside as a store or reserve : accumulate.
Save means to rescue from danger, to lessen the use of something, or to set something aside for later. Save has many other uses, especially as a verb and a noun. If you save someone, you prevent them from being harmed or injured. Nonliving things can also be saved from destruction or damage.
1. ( tr) to rescue, preserve, or guard (a person or thing) from danger or harm. 2. to avoid the spending, waste, or loss of (money, possessions, etc) 3. (Theology) ( tr) to deliver from sin; redeem. 4. ( often foll by up) to set aside or reserve (money, goods, etc) for future use.
save. (seɪv ) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense saves , present participle saving , past tense, past participle saved. 1. verb B1. If you save someone or something, you help them to avoid harm or to escape from a dangerous or unpleasant situation. ...a final attempt to save 40,000 jobs in the troubled aero industry. [VERB noun]
to stop someone or something from being killed or destroyed: He was badly injured, but the doctors saved his life. She saved the children from drowning. He had to borrow money to save his business. Fewer examples. He risked his life to save me. An airbag could save your life in the event of an accident.
[intransitive, transitive] to keep money instead of spending it, especially in order to buy a particular thing. I'm not very good at saving. We scrimp and save to send our children to a private school. I'm saving up to buy a new car. save for something I'm saving for a new bike.
To save is to keep safe. So, you might save money for college, save a kitten from drowning, or save a dropped football.
verb. /seɪv/ Verb Forms. keep safe. [transitive] to keep someone or something safe from death, harm, loss, etc. save somebody/something to save someone's life Doctors were unable to save her. He's trying to save their marriage. She needs to win the next two games to save the match. (figurative) Thanks for doing that.
Noun. Preposition. Idiom. Filter. verb. saved, saves, saving. To rescue or preserve from harm, danger, injury, etc.; make or keep safe. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To keep in health and well-being. God save the king! Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To avoid, prevent, lessen, or guard against. To save wear and tear.
