save
/seɪv/
To prevent harm or difficulty.; To help to survive, or rescue from harm; To keep safe; to safeguard
- he/she/it
- saves
- past
- saved
- past participle
- saved
Meanings
- 1
To prevent harm or difficulty.; To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm
Thanks for saving my life.
Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR
I tried to save him.
Tatoeba · Hybrid · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To prevent harm or difficulty.; To keep (something) safe; to safeguard
- 3
To prevent harm or difficulty.; To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable
- 4
To prevent harm or difficulty.; To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnationrare
- 5
To prevent harm or difficulty.; To catch or deflect (a shot at goal)rare
- 6
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 gamerare
- 7
To put aside; to avoid.; To store for future userare
- 8
To put aside; to avoid.; To conserve or prevent the wasting ofrare
- 9
To put aside; to avoid.; To obviate or make unnecessaryrare
- 10
To put aside; to avoid.; To write a file to disk or other storage mediumrare