| VERB | social | spare, save | refrain from harming |
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| social | spare | save or relieve from an experience or action | |
| possession | spare, give up, part with, dispense with | give up what is not strictly needed | |
| consumption | spare | use frugally or carefully | |
| ADJECTIVE | all | spare, trim | thin and fit |
| all | spare, excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus | more than is needed, desired, or required | |
| all | spare, free | not taken up by scheduled activities | |
| all | spare | kept in reserve especially for emergency use | |
| all | spare, bare, scanty | lacking in amplitude or quantity | |
| all | spare, plain, bare, unembellished, unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation | |
| NOUN | artifact | spare, spare part | an extra component of a machine or other apparatus |
| artifact | spare, fifth wheel | an extra car ... / car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle | |
| act | spare | a score in tenpins |
| Sounds | speh'r | |
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| Rhymes | affair ... wheelchair: 116 rhymes with ehr... | |
| Meaning | Thin and fit. | |
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| Example | "the spare figure of a marathon runner" | |
| Synonym | trim | |
| Broader | thin, lean | lacking excess flesh |
| Spanish | enjuto | |
| Nouns | spareness | the property of being scanty or scattered |
| Meaning | More than is needed, desired, or required. | |
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| Example | "sleeping in the spare room" | |
| Synonyms | excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus | |
| Broader | unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary |
| Spanish | excedente, excesivo, extra, redundante, sobrante, superfluo | |
| Catalan | excedent, excessiu, extra, redundant, sobrant, sobrer, superflu | |
| Meaning | not taken up by scheduled activities. | |
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| Example | "spare time on my hands" | |
| Synonym | free | |
| Broader | unoccupied | not held or filled or in use |
| Spanish | desocupado, libre | |
| Catalan | desocupat, lliure | |
| Meaning | Kept in reserve especially for emergency use. | |
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| Broader | unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary |
| Spanish | sobrante | |
| Meaning | lacking in amplitude or quantity. | |
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| Example | "a spare diet" | |
| Synonyms | bare, scanty | |
| Broader | meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy | Deficient in amount or quality or extent |
| Spanish | escaso, insuficiente, parco, reducido | |
| Catalan | escàs, insuficient, minso, reduït | |
| Nouns | spareness | the property of being scanty or scattered |
| Meaning | lacking embellishment or ornamentation. | |
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| Synonyms | plain, bare, unembellished, unornamented | |
| Broader | unadorned, undecorated | not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction |
| Spanish | natural, sencillo | |
| Catalan | natural, senzill | |
| Meaning | An extra component of a machine or other apparatus. | |
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| Synonym | spare part | |
| Broader | component, constituent, element | An artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up |
| Spanish | pieza de repuesto, recambio, repuesto | |
| Meaning | An extra car ... / car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle. | |
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| Synonym | fifth wheel | |
| Broader | car wheel | A wheel that has a tire and rim and hubcap |
| Spanish | rueda de recambio | |
| Catalan | roda de recanvi | |
| Meaning | A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls. | |
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| Broader | score | The act of scoring in a game / game / game or sport |
| Meaning | Refrain from harming. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They spare him from writing the letter | |
| Synonym | save | |
| Narrower | favor, favour | treat gently or carefully |
| Broader | refrain, forbear | Resist doing something |
| Spanish | ahorrar, excusar, guardarse | |
| Nouns | sparer | someone who refrains from injuring or destroying |
| Meaning | save or relieve from an experience or action. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s somebody PP | |
| Example | "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally" | |
| Broader | exempt, relieve, free | grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to |
| Spanish | ahorrar | |
| Meaning | Give up what is not strictly needed. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey" | |
| Synonyms | give up, part with, dispense with | |
| Broader | give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody |
| Spanish | deshacerse de, prescindir de | |
| Catalan | estar-se'n, prescindir de | |
| Meaning | Use frugally or carefully. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Broader | use, expend | use up, consume fully |
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