Save

/seɪv/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
2. To put aside; to avoid.
3. An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
4. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
5. (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
6. Except; with the exception of.
7. unless; except

Example Sentences

As 1942 began, work was now continuing apace on getting the ships back afloat and into dock. The first good news in this regard was West Virginia. Thanks to a combination of Tennessees unintentional save' and the crew's own efforts, she'd settled upright, and so divers estimated that, if the various holes could be patched and pumping done in a sensible order from the top down, she should just rise back up to the surface on an even keel, which, in turn, meant that a lot of the initial work on removing her main battery could now be stopped.

It is no coincidence that two of the four 'saves' on our tour connect with the early days of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR), where restoration has also been helped by recent research that explains further why these saves are so significant.

If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.

The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.

Under the terms of the Interdict no church services and offices were to be permitted save the baptism of infants and the confession of the dying.

Only the parties may institute proceedings, save where the law shall provide otherwise.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

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• savest
• savedst
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