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

1. noun. The herb sage, or salvia.
2. adjective. 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.
3. adjective. 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.
4. adjective. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
5. adjective. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
6. adjective. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
7. adjective. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
8. intransitive verb. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
9. adjective. Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
10. conjunction. Except; unless.
11. noun. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring

    "the goalie made a brilliant save"

    "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"

12. verb. make unnecessary an expenditure or effort

    "This will save money"

    "I'll save you the trouble"

13. verb. record data on a computer

    "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"

    Synonyms: write

14. verb. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use

    "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

    Synonyms: preserve

15. verb. accumulate money for future use

    "He saves half his salary"

16. verb. spend less; buy at a reduced price
17. verb. retain rights to

    "keep my job for me while I give birth"

    "keep my seat, please"

    Synonyms: keep

18. verb. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of

    "This move will save money"

    "The less fortunate will have to economize now"

    Synonyms: economise, economize

19. verb. refrain from harming

    Synonyms: spare

20. verb. save from ruin, destruction, or harm

    Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve

21. verb. save from sins

    Synonyms: deliver, redeem

22. verb. bring into safety

    "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"

Synonyms

write, preserve, keep, economise, economize, spare, relieve, salvage, salve, deliver, redeem

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in save:

aves, vase

Common word forms

saved, saver, saves, saving, saveable, savement

Words from these letters

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