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sparing   (TTS Sound)

The verb spare has 4 senses

• spare, save -- (refrain from harming)


• spare -- (save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally")


• 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")


• spare -- (use frugally or carefully)

The adj sparing has 1 sense

• economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting -- (avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally")