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spare

English

  1. 🔊 thin and fit
    “the spare figure of a marathon runner”
  2. 🔊 kept in reserve especially for emergency use
    “a reserve supply of food”
  3. 🔊 not taken up by scheduled activities
    “a free hour between classes”
  4. 🔊 lacking embellishment or ornamentation
    “a plain hair style”
  5. 🔊 lacking in magnitude or quantity
    “a bare livelihood”
  6. 🔊 more than is needed, desired, or required
    “trying to lose excess weight”
  7. 🔊 a score in tenpins
  8. 🔊 an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
  9. 🔊 an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
  10. 🔊 use frugally or carefully
  11. 🔊 give up what is not strictly needed
    “he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey”
  12. 🔊 refrain from harming
  13. 🔊 save or relieve from an experience or action
    “I'll spare you from having to apologize formally”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 de recambio spare
  2. 🔊 ahorrar to spare
  3. 🔊 apiadar to spare
  4. 🔊 de repuesto spare, backup
  5. 🔊 repuesto spare, spare part
  6. 🔊 recambio spare, replacement
  7. 🔊 evitar to spare, to save (to relieve someone having to experience something)

Similar words

fifth wheel spare part give up part with dispense with save plain bare unembellished unornamented bare(a) scanty trim excess extra redundant supererogatory superfluous supernumerary surplus free lenten scotch spartan