5. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare. Will you not speak to save a lady's blush Dryden.
6. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of. Just saving the tide, and putting in a stock of merit. Swift. To save appearance, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.
Syn.
— To preserve; rescue; deliver; protect; spare; reserve; prevent.
SAVE
Save, v. i.
Defn: To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste;
to be economical.
Brass ordnance saveth in the quantity of the material. Bacon.
SAVE Save, prep. or conj. Etym: [F. sauf, properly adj., safe. See Safe, a.]
Defn: Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting;
reserving; saving.
Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24.
Syn.
— See Except.
SAVE
Save, conj.
Defn: Except; unless.