Spare
To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
To desist; to stop; to refrain.
Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.
Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time.
Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.
Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
Slow.
The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
Parsimony; frugal use.
An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
That which has not been used or expended.
The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
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Spare Quotations
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Vladimir Nabokov
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
Jean Baudrillard
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Matthew Arnold
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Martha Beck
Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.
Christopher Dodd
Spare no expense to save money on this one.
Samuel Goldwyn
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Ivan Pavlov
I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.
Dashiell Hammett
We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
John L. Phillips
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
Finley Peter Dunne
I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.
Moon Unit Zappa
The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.
Peggy Fleming
Spare all I have, and take my life.
George Farquhar
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
Hugh Jackman
Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
Marco Rubio
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.
Marco Rubio
Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.
Kim Campbell
The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.
Charles Tupper
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
Thomas Gray
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
Raymond E. Feist
It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
Bob Geldof
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
Amy Tan
You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
Duane G. Carey
When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
Alice Duer Miller
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Spare Translations
spare in Afrikaans is bespaar, spaar
spare in Danish is spare
spare in Dutch is ontzien, sparen
spare in Italian is tempo libero
spare in Latin is parco, tempero
spare in Portuguese is sobressalentes
spare in Swedish is spara, bespara, avvara, skona
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