verb
definition
To prevent harm or difficulty.
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To put aside, to avoid.
adjective
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Rescued from the consequences of sin.
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Retained for future use rather than spent e.g. ː"A penny saved is a penny earned."
Examples of saved in a Sentence
I'm glad you saved me the trouble.
I saved your life.
Aunt Annie was here! she announced like a saved soul at a revival.
Maybe... but something about him rang true – mostly the part that he had saved her life.
No, nishani, you saved us.
It saved the guy from having his head blown off.
We've saved scores of lives.
I was thinking about the way you rode up and saved me from those dogs.
He's quite a man, and he just saved my life.
The paper didn't give a whole lot of details but the boys got in trouble and Edith saved the youngest one, Donnie.
Now, they would all be saved for him.
And that he'd saved her life again.
If he were allowed to pick his mate, he'd have chosen long ago and saved his planet.
Damian's spinning emotions warmed at the idea that Sofia saved him.
It was this that saved her from some snide comment about her less-than-fashionable clothes.
If he could've saved my father and mother, he would've.
The one who saved you from the cat asked Romas on the spot to marry you.
A'Ran's deep voice saved her from filling the awkward quiet.
I've saved my favorite room for last.
He'd used her and saved her, not for her, but for his own purposes!
Your family must've saved their whole lives to send you.
By the way, the good news is you might have just saved another life.
Getting pinched saved my life and introduced me to God.
He'd saved her brother, her, the world.
I've saved your life twice now, jackass.
But the divinity which hedged a prophet saved him.
At one time he took it into his head that all persons of Israelite blood would be saved, and tried to make out that he partook of that blood; but his hopes were speedily destroyed by his father, who seems to have had no ambition to be regarded as a Jew.
Before it was introduced he went to Belfast in Easter week, and at a great demonstration, presided over by Sir Edward Carson, encouraged the Ulstermen to trust to themselves; Belfast was again, he said, a besieged city; the Government by the Parliament Act had erected a boom against them - they would burst that boom; and it would be said of them that they had saved themselves by their exertions, and would save the Empire by their example.
Startled, Bianca turned to face the doorway, recognizing the petite blonde woman who saved her from Dusty's bullet in Talon's garage.
Or, papa got an answer to his newspaper ad and saved a shotgun shell by doing the bashing himself.
And technically, I interfered by making him disappear before anyone figured out he'd saved humanity.
In the darkness of his cell, he admitted this was true, but he also knew no one could've saved his brother but him.
She was pleased by the news, despite knowing none of his brothers remotely deserved to be saved.
I have some money saved back for emergencies.
Rhyn glanced at him, taking in the arm in a sling. Kris was healing from an attacker Rhyn had saved him from, the day Katie killed herself.
I've saved every man and woman I could, opened my gates to take in those with no home and no hope.
Dangers from abroad would destroy the centrifugal forces at home, and the Union would be saved.
After the close of the war with Mexico Green was sent to that country in 1849 by President Taylor to negotiate concerning the moneys which, by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States had agreed to pay; and he saved his country a considerable sum by arranging for payment in exchange instead of in specie.
The American warship "Nipsic" was cast upon the beach, but was afterwards floated and saved.
The foreign ministers then arranged a compromise between the contending parties, according to which President Peixoto was to place no artillery in the city, while Admiral Mello was to refrain from bombarding the town, which was thus saved from destruction.
Then came the mutiny, and Sikhs once more were recruited in numbers and saved India for the British crown.
On the night of the first representation, which was warmly received, Picard, the manager, threw himself into the arms of his elated friend, exclaiming, "You have saved us!
That God desires that all should be saved, and that the salvation of each depends on his own choice - these are the general convictions of modern theology.
The loss of quicksilver in the process is large, owing to the formation of calomel which is not saved.
The controversy was renewed in 1503 and again in 1578; but the general support of the Jesuits and the staunch fidelity of the Majorcans saved Lull from condemnation.
Here, however, Menelek was saved from probable destruction through the action of Egypt.
The sieges of Haarlem, Neth er- Alkmaar and Leiden saved Holland from being lands.
Early at Monocacy (July 9,1864) he saved Washington from almost certain capture.
The frank recognition that local income taxes are impossible, and that taxation on property for local purposes can only be applied to real property, where it becomes, usually or frequently, in the nature of a rent-charge, would have saved the legislature and the public an infinity of laborious discussion.
A similar instance is that of Lycurgus, a Thracian king, from whose attack Dionysus saved himself by leaping into the sea, where he was kindly received by Thetis.