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sparing
 
Adjective sparing has 1 sense
  1. economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting - avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
    Antonym: wasteful (indirect, via thrifty)
Verb spare has 4 senses
  1. spare, save - refrain from harming
    --1 is one way to refrain, forbear
    Derived form: noun sparer1
    Sample sentence:
    They spare him from writing the letter
  2. spare - save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"
    --2 is one way to     exempt, relieve, free
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody something
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
  3. spare, give up, part with, dispense with - give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
    --3 is one way to give
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. spare - use frugally or carefully
    --4 is one way to     use, expend
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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