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Spare

adjective
(compar. sparer; superl. sparest)
1.
Thin and fit.  Synonym: trim.  "A body kept trim by exercise"
2.
More than is needed, desired, or required.  Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus.  "Found some extra change lying on the dresser" , "Yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant" , "Skills made redundant by technological advance" , "Sleeping in the spare room" , "Supernumerary ornamentation" , "It was supererogatory of her to gloat" , "Delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words" , "Extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts" , "Surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
3.
Not taken up by scheduled activities.  Synonym: free.  "Spare time on my hands"
4.
Kept in reserve especially for emergency use.  "A spare tire" , "Spare parts"
5.
Lacking in amplitude or quantity.  Synonyms: bare, scanty.  "A scanty harvest" , "A spare diet"
6.
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation.  Synonyms: bare, plain, unembellished, unornamented.  "Unembellished white walls" , "Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
verb
(past & past part. spared; pres. part. sparing)
1.
Refrain from harming.  Synonym: save.
2.
Save or relieve from an experience or action.
3.
Give up what is not strictly needed.  Synonyms: dispense with, give up, part with.
4.
Use frugally or carefully.
noun
1.
An extra component of a machine or other apparatus.  Synonym: spare part.
2.
An extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle.  Synonym: fifth wheel.
3.
A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls.



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"Spare" Quotes from Famous Books



... is good for man to be so. [7:27]Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife. [7:28]But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you. [7:29]But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them, [7:30]and those who weep as those not weeping, and those who rejoice as those not rejoicing, and those who buy as not possessing, [7:31]and those who use the ...
— The New Testament • Various

... at a truly astonishing pace, considering his paunch and all-round ungainliness, getting over the ground faster than many a thin man could have done. As he ran his lips worked, for though he had no breath to spare for speech, his brain was forming words ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy

... language. This prince was now up the country, engaged in a war with his neighbours, called the Diable Moors;* and the queen-dowager, who remained at Portenderrick, gave Mr. Cumming to understand, that she could not at present spare any troops to join the English in their expedition against Senegal; but she assured him, that, should the French be exterminated, she and their subjects would ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett

... will never be forgotten by those who watched his last moments. Labored was the breathing and every breath was a gasp and a groan. His children stood by the couch and saw the pain-racked form, and his wife held his hand and prayed to the God of all people to spare him to her for a longer time. Prayers were of no avail and tears did not soothe the pain. He was in agony, and accompanied with that agony was a desire to say something. He relapsed into slumber at times and would at intervals awake. His eyes would roll about ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... believe that Melbourne would not be more so than anybody, if it were not that he is bound by every sentiment of duty, gratitude, and attachment to the Queen to retain the Government as long as he can with honour and safety, and to stretch a point even, to spare her the pain and mortification of changes that would be so painful to her. The Tories, who see the accumulating difficulties of the Government, and who are aware of the immense importance of letting it dissolve of itself, or be broken up by the defection and opposition of its own supporters, are ...
— The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) - A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 - (Volume 1 of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville


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