Dictionary Entry
save
save is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, conjunction, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The herb sage, or salvia. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The herb sage, or salvia.
- 2adjective
To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
- 3adjective
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.
- 4adjective
To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
- 5adjective
To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
- 6adjective
To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
- 7adjective
To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
- 8intransitive verb
To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
- 9adjective
Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
- 10conjunction
Except; unless.
- 11noun
(sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
"the goalie made a brilliant save"
"the relief pitcher got credit for a save"
- 12verb
make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
"This will save money"
"I'll save you the trouble"
- 13verb
record data on a computer
"boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
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- 14verb
to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
"She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
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- 15verb
accumulate money for future use
"He saves half his salary"
- 16verb
spend less; buy at a reduced price
- 17verb
retain rights to
"keep my job for me while I give birth"
"keep my seat, please"
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- 18verb
spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
"This move will save money"
"The less fortunate will have to economize now"
- 19verb
refrain from harming
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- 20verb
save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- 21verb
save from sins
- 22verb
bring into safety
"We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
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