Definition of spare

"spare" in the noun sense

1. spare part, spare

an extra component of a machine or other apparatus

2. fifth wheel, spare

an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle

3. spare

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

"spare" in the verb sense

1. spare, save

refrain from harming

2. spare

save or relieve from an experience or action

"I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"

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"

4. spare

use frugally or carefully

"spare" in the adjective sense

1. spare, trim

thin and fit

"the spare figure of a marathon runner"

"a body kept trim by exercise"

2. excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus

more than is needed, desired, or required

"trying to lose excess weight"

"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. spare, free

not taken up by scheduled activities

"a free hour between classes"

"spare time on my hands"

4. spare

kept in reserve especially for emergency use

"a reserve supply of food"

"a spare tire"

"spare parts"

5. bare, scanty, spare

lacking in magnitude or quantity

"a bare livelihood"

"a scanty harvest"

"a spare diet"

6. plain, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented

lacking embellishment or ornamentation

"a plain hair style"

"unembellished white walls"

"functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"

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Quotations for spare

Too late to spare
When the bottom is bare. [ Proverb ]

Spare to speak spare to speed. [ Proverb ]

Spare the rod and spoil the child. [ Proverb ]

Spare the person, but lash the vice. [ Martial ]

Spare your rhetoric and speak logic. [ Proverb ]

Spare your breath to cool your broth. [ Proverb ]

Spare at the brim, not at the bottom. [ Proverb ]

Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! [ Campbell ]

Spare your breath to cool your porridge. [ Cervantes ]

Spare the paper which is fated to perish. [ Adapted from Juvenal ]

Wise is the man prepared for either end,
Who in due measure can both spare and spend. [ Lucian ]

Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine.
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. [ Milton ]

As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]

He that has nothing to spare must not keep a dog. [ Proverb ]

If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man. [ Young ]

To spare at a spigot, and let run out at the bung-hole. [ Proverb ]

Exercise the muscles well, but spare the nerves always. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Better spare to have of thine own than ask of other men. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They (obliged by law) spare a mill, but steal a province!

Use a spare diet; and thus cut off the enemies' provisions. [ Dr. Tronchin ]

Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare. [ Proverb ]

It is as great a mischief to spare all, as it is cruelty to spare none. [ Proverb ]

Time is like money; the less we have of it to spare, the further we make it go. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Life is too short to spare an hour of it in the indulgence of this evil passion. [ Lamartine ]

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. [ Halleck ]

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare. [ Johnson ]

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [ Ovid ]

Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet, mixed with pity, violated not their bliss. [ Milton ]

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind. [ L'Estrange ]

These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. [ Virgil ]

The philosophy of princes is to dive into the secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spare neither man nor the proudest of his works, which bury empires and cities in a common grave. [ Gibbon ]

He that is sensible of no evil but what he feels, has a hard heart; and he that can spare no kindness from himself, has a narrow soul. [ Collier ]

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]

Go on, spare no invectives, but open the spout of your eloquence, and see with what a calm, connubial resignation I will both hear and bow to the chastisement. [ Colley Cibber ]

It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections. [ Rochefoucauld ]

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position. [ G. A. Sala ]

The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. [ Emerson ]

spare in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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spare in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of spare

2 letter words in spare (5 words)

3 letter words in spare (13 words)

5 letter words in spare (Anagrams) (8 words)

spare + 2 blanks (210 words)

Word Growth involving spare

Shorter words in spare

ar are pare

re are pare

ar par pare

pa par pare

ar par spar

pa par spar

pa spa spar

Longer words containing spare

dyspareunia

spared

sparely

spareness

sparer sparerib spareribs

sparer sparers

spares sparest

transparencies semitransparencies

transparency nontransparency

transparency radiotransparency

transparency semitransparency

transparent nontransparent nontransparently

transparent nontransparent nontransparentness

transparent radiotransparent

transparent semitransparent semitransparently

transparent semitransparent semitransparentness

transparent transparently nontransparently

transparent transparently semitransparently