Definition of save

"save" in the noun sense

1. save

sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring

"the goalie made a brilliant save"

"the relief pitcher got credit for a save"

"save" in the verb sense

1. salvage, salve, relieve, save

save from ruin, destruction, or harm

2. save, preserve

to keep up and reserve for personal or special use

"She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

3. save, carry through, pull through, bring through

bring into safety

"We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"

4. save

spend less buy at a reduced price

5. save, lay aside, save up

accumulate money for future use

"He saves half his salary"

6. save, make unnecessary

make unnecessary an expenditure or effort

"This will save money"

"I'll save you the trouble"

"This will save you a lot of time"

7. deliver, redeem, save

save from sins

8. spare, save

refrain from harming

9. save, economize, economise

spend sparingly, avoid the waste of

"This move will save money"

"The less fortunate will have to economize now"

10. keep open, hold open, keep, save

retain rights to

"keep my job for me while I give birth"

"keep my seat, please"

"keep open the possibility of a merger"

11. write, save

record data on a computer

"boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"

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Quotations for save

Courage alone can save us. [ Southey ]

Money answers everything,
Save a guilty conscience sting. [ Proverb ]

To choose time is to save time. [ Bacon ]

Save me from the candid friend. [ George Canning ]

Crafty evasions save not veracity. [ Proverb ]

Some save-alls do well in a house. [ Proverb ]

If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save. [ Proverb ]

God save you, and give you a cloak. [ Proverb ]

No concealing folly save by silence.

If you would keep money, save money. [ Proverb ]

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. [ L. E. Landon ]

A Kentish jury, hang half and save half. [ Proverb ]

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man. [ Proverb ]

Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save. [ Byron ]

Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground? [ William Shakespeare ]

The wish, which ages have not yet subdued
In man, to have no master save his mood. [ Byron ]

Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest.
Save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]

The brave love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]

On the field of foughten battle still,
Woe knows no limits save the victor's will. [ The Gaulliad ]

No future hour can rend my heart like this,
Save that which breaks it. [ Maturin ]

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas. [ Victor Hugo ]

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]

What a pity is it
That we can die but once to save our country! [ Joseph Addison ]

The world is nowadays, God save the conqueror. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The lazy servant to save one step, goes eight. [ Proverb ]

Madame, bear in mind
That princes govern all things - save the wind. [ Victor Hugo ]

There is nothing good or evil save in the will. [ Epictetus ]

I live.
But live to die: and living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome and yet all invincible
Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I
Despise myself, yet cannot overcome -
And so I live. [ Byron ]

Philip. Madam, a day may sink or save a realm.
Mary. A day may save a heart from breaking too. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried? [ Byron ]

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. [ Montaigne ]

Unchangeable save in thy wild waves' play,
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow;
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. [ Byron ]

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself. [ Ward Beecher ]

Husbands can earn money, but only wives can save it. [ Proverb ]

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. [ E. B. Browning ]

Cast a bone in the devil's teeth and it will save you. [ Proverb ]

Oh! save me, ye powers, from these pinks of the nation,
These tea-table heroes! these lords of creation. [ Salmagundi ]

Save something for the man that rides on the white horse. [ Proverb ]

The groundsel speaks not, save what it heard at the hinges. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God save me from a poor fiddler who knows nothing of music. [ F. Geminiani ]

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. [ Gay ]

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

If you save a rogue from the gallows, he will rob you that same night. [ Proverb ]

Good works will never save you, but you can never be saved without them. [ Proverb ]

A certain degree of soul is indispensable to save us the expense of salt. [ Ben Jonson ]

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. [ La Bruyere ]

Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax. [ Jean Paul ]

Let a broken man cling to his work. If it saves nothing else, it will save him. [ Beecher ]

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. [ Petrarch ]

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Will no superior genius snatch the quill, and save me on the brink from writing ill? [ Young ]

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God. [ Beecher ]

God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living. [ Amer. Proverb ]

You cannot save men from death but by facing it for them, nor from sin but by resisting it for them. [ John Ruskin ]

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy. [ Dr. Johnson ]

What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? [ Walter Scott ]

It is a pleasure appropriate to man for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [ Ovid ]

Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]

The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it. [ De Beaufort ]

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

There is in all this cold and hollow world no fount of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

The man that lays his hand on woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward. [ Tobin ]

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. [ Burke ]

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last part; but fame relates all, and often more than all. [ Thomas Fuller ]

A face that had a story to tell. How different are faces in this particular! Some of them speak not; they are books in which not a line is written, save perhaps a date. [ Longfellow ]

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct prescription. [ Whately ]

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. [ Bacon ]

An era is fast approaching when no writer will be rend by the majority, save and except those than can effect that for bales of manuscript that the hydrostatic screw performs for bales of cotton, by condensing that matter into a period that before occupied a page. [ Cottar ]

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper. [ Seneca ]

There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. He'll never get fat. I believe it is better to support schools than jails. [ Mark Twain, "Public Education Association" Speech ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

save in Scrabble®

The word save is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters save:

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save in Words With Friends™

The word save is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters save:

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Word Growth involving save

Shorter words in save

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Longer words containing save

autosave autosaved

autosave autosaves

resave resaved

resave resaves

saveable

saved autosaved

saved resaved

saved spacesaved

saved unsaved

saver lifesaver lifesavers

saver misaver misaverred

saver misaver misaverring

saver misaver misavers

saver savers lifesavers

saver savers misavers

saver savers screensavers

saver savers spacesavers

saver savers timesavers

saver screensaver screensavers

saver spacesaver spacesavers

saver timesaver timesavers

saves autosaves

saves resaves

saves spacesaves