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Exact Match:

spare

a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls

thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"

not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"

use frugally or carefully

give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"

refrain from harming

save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"

Synonyms:

• Lenten,
• Scotch,
• Spartan,
• abandon,
• abjure,
• absolve,
• abstain,
• abstain from,
• abstemious,
• accessory,
• additional,
• afford,
• agent,
• allow,
• alternate,
• alternative,
• amnesty,
• analogy,
• ancillary,
• angular,
• another,
• as a bonus,
• ascetic,
• austere,
• auxiliary,
• avoid,
• award,
• backup,
• balance,
• bald,
• bare,
• basic,
• bear,
• bestow,
• bonus,
• bony,
• cadaverous,
• candid,
• canny,
• careful,
• casual,
• cede,
• change,
• changeling,
• chary,
• chaste,
• cheeseparing,
• collateral,
• common,
• commonplace,
• comparison,
• conserve,
• conserved,
• conserving,
• contributory,
• copy,
• copyright,
• counterfeit,
• de trop,
• deliver,
• deputy,
• direct,
• discharge,
• disgorge,
• dispensable,
• dispense,
• dispense from,
• dispense with,
• dispose of,
• dividend,
• do without,
• donate,
• double,
• drop,
• dry,
• dull,
• dummy,
• dump,
• dwarfed,
• dwarfish,
• economic,
• economizing,
• elementary,
• endure,
• equal,
• equivalent,
• ersatz,
• eschew,
• essential,
• except,
• excess,
• exchange,
• exculpate,
• excuse,
• exempt,
• exiguous,
• exonerate,
• expendable,
• expletive,
• extra,
• fake,
• farther,
• fill-in,
• flat,
• flat-chested,
• fleshless,
• for lagniappe,
• forbear,
• forehanded,
• forgive,
• forgo,
• forsake,
• forswear,
• frank,
• free,
• fresh,
• frugal,
• fundamental,
• further,
• gangling,
• gangly,
• gaunt,
• gawky,
• get along without,
• get rid of,
• ghost,
• ghostwriter,
• give,
• give absolution,
• give away,
• give dispensation from,
• give quarter,
• give up,
• grant amnesty to,
• grant forgiveness,
• grant immunity,
• grant remission,
• gratuitous,
• gratuity,
• guard,
• have done with,
• have mercy upon,
• have pity,
• held,
• held back,
• held in reserve,
• held out,
• hold,
• hold aloof from,
• hold back,
• hold off,
• homely,
• homespun,
• homogeneous,
• idle,
• imitation,
• impoverished,
• in abeyance,
• in addition,
• in excess,
• in hand,
• in reserve,
• incidental,
• indivisible,
• irreducible,
• jejune,
• keep,
• keep alive,
• keep back,
• keep from,
• keep in hand,
• keep intact,
• keep inviolate,
• keep safe,
• keep up,
• kept,
• kiss good-bye,
• labor-saving,
• lagniappe,
• lank,
• lanky,
• lay aside,
• lay away,
• lay by,
• lay in,
• lay up,
• lean,
• lean-fleshed,
• lean-looking,
• left,
• leftover,
• leisure,
• leisured,
• let alone,
• let go,
• let go by,
• let have,
• let off,
• let up on,
• liberate,
• limited,
• locum tenens,
• maintain,
• make a sacrifice,
• makeshift,
• margin,
• matter-of-fact,
• meager,
• mean,
• melt,
• mere,
• metaphor,
• metonymy,
• mint,
• miserly,
• mock,
• modest,
• money-saving,
• monolithic,
• more,
• more than enough,
• narrow,
• natural,
• neat,
• needless,
• net,
• never touch,
• new,
• next best thing,
• niggardly,
• nonessential,
• not destroy,
• not endanger,
• not expend,
• not touch,
• not use,
• not use up,
• not waste,
• occasional,
• odd,
• of a piece,
• off,
• open,
• original,
• other,
• out-of-the-way,
• outstanding,
• over,
• over and above,
• overage,
• overmeasure,
• overplus,
• overrun,
• overset,
• overstock,
• oversupply,
• paltry,
• pardon,
• parsimonious,
• part with,
• part-time,
• pass up,
• patent,
• penny-wise,
• personnel,
• phony,
• pinch,
• pinch hitter,
• plain,
• plain-speaking,
• plain-spoken,
• pleonastic,
• plus,
• poor,
• pourboire,
• preserve,
• preserved,
• primal,
• primary,
• pristine,
• prolix,
• prosaic,
• prosing,
• prosy,
• protect,
• provident,
• provisional,
• proxy,
• prudent,
• prudential,
• puny,
• pure,
• pure and simple,
• put aside,
• put by,
• quitclaim,
• rawboned,
• recant,
• redeem,
• redundant,
• refrain,
• refrain from,
• register,
• relax,
• release,
• relent,
• relief,
• relieve,
• relinquish,
• remainder,
• remaining,
• remanent,
• remise,
• remit,
• render up,
• renounce,
• replacement,
• representative,
• reprieve,
• rescue,
• reserve,
• reserved,
• reserves,
• resign,
• retained,
• retired,
• retract,
• ringer,
• rustic,
• sacrifice,
• salt away,
• save,
• save the necessity,
• saved,
• saving,
• scant,
• scanty,
• scraggy,
• scrawny,
• scrimp,
• scrimping,
• scrimpy,
• second string,
• secondary,
• semiretired,
• severe,
• short,
• shrive,
• shun,
• side,
• sign,
• simon-pure,
• simple,
• simple-speaking,
• single,
• skeletal,
• skimp,
• skimping,
• skimpy,
• skinny,
• slender,
• slight,
• slim,
• small,
• sober,
• something extra,
• spare the price,
• spares,
• sparing,
• sparse,
• spidery,
• spindling,
• spindly,
• stand,
• stand aloof from,
• stand-in,
• stark,
• starvation,
• stingy,
• stint,
• stinted,
• stopgap,
• stored,
• straightforward,
• straitened,
• stunted,
• sub,
• subsistence,
• substituent,
• substitute,
• substitution,
• succedaneum,
• supererogatory,
• superfluous,
• supernumerary,
• superseder,
• supplanter,
• supplemental,
• supplementary,
• support,
• surplus,
• surplusage,
• surrender,
• surrogate,
• surviving,
• suspended,
• sustain,
• swear off,
• symbol,
• synecdoche,
• take pity on,
• tautologic,
• tautologous,
• temporary,
• tentative,
• thaw,
• thin,
• thin-bellied,
• thin-fleshed,
• third string,
• thrifty,
• throw up,
• tide,
• time-saving,
• tip,
• to spare,
• token,
• twiggy,
• ulterior,
• unadorned,
• unaffected,
• unapplied,
• unbeaten,
• uncalled-for,
• uncluttered,
• unconsumed,
• undergo,
• undersized,
• understudy,
• underweight,
• undifferenced,
• undifferentiated,
• unemployed,
• unessential,
• unexercised,
• unexpended,
• unhandled,
• uniform,
• unimaginative,
• unnecessary,
• unneeded,
• unnourishing,
• unnutritious,
• unoccupied,
• unpoetical,
• unspent,
• untapped,
• untouched,
• untrodden,
• unused,
• unutilized,
• unvarnished,
• unwasteful,
• uphold,
• utility,
• utility player,
• vacate,
• verbose,
• vicar,
• vicarious,
• vice-president,
• vice-regent,
• waive,
• waived,
• watered,
• watery,
• well afford,
• wiry,
• withheld,
• withhold,
• yield