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• verb 1 keep safe or rescue from harm or danger. 2 prevent from dying. 3 (in Christian use) preserve (a soul) from damnation. 4 store up for future use. 5 Computing keep (data) by moving a copy to a storage location. 6 avoid the need to use up or spend: computers save time. 7 avoid, lessen, or guard against. 8 prevent an opponent from scoring (a goal or point). • noun chiefly Soccer an act of preventing an opponent’s scoring. — PHRASES save one’s breath not bother to say something pointless. save the day (or situation) provide a solution to a problem. save someone’s skin (or neck or bacon) rescue someone from difficulty. — ORIGIN Latin salvare, from salvus ‘safe’.
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