Results for spare
Definitions of spare:
part of speech: adjective
Sparing: frugal scanty: lean: superfluous.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To live frugally or cheaply; forbear or forgive.
part of speech: adjective
Thin or lean; scanty; held in reserve; as, a spare room; more than enough; as, spare cash.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To be frugal: to forbear: to be tender: to forgive.
part of speech: noun
SPARENESS.
part of speech: verb
To refrain from using, taking, or doing something; to part with willingly; to treat with tenderness or forbearance; to live frugally; to save from any particular use; to exercise forbearance.
part of speech: verb transitive
To use in a frugal or saving manner; use rarely; as, spare the rod; part with without inconvenience; refuse to punish; treat leniently; as, to spare the feelings.
part of speech: verb transitive
To use frugally: to do without: to save from any use: to withhold from: to treat tenderly: to part with willingly.
part of speech: adjective
Scanty; frugal; held in reserve; not abundant; not required for present use; lean.
Usage examples for spare:
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Can't you spare me yours, Dora?
"Amy Herbert", Elizabeth Sewell -
I'd show you what he wrote, but we haven't time to spare
"Dixie Hart", Will N. Harben -
Won't you spare me one?
"Hoodie", Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth -
Spare your horse; you will want all he's got in him before you have done.
"On the Pampas", G. A. Henty