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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To rescue from harm, danger, or loss.
2. v. To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem.
3. v. To keep in a safe condition; safeguard.
4. v. To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve.
5. v. To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it.
6. v. To avoid spending (money or time) in an amount less than what circumstances normally require: saved $25 at the sale; saved 15 minutes by taking a shortcut.
7. v. To set aside for future use; store.
8. v. To treat with care by avoiding fatigue, wear, or damage; spare: save one's eyesight.
9. v. To make unnecessary; obviate: Your taking the trunk to the attic has saved me an extra trip.
10. v. Sports To prevent (a goal) from being scored by an opponent.
11. v. To preserve a victory in (a game).
12. v. Baseball To preserve (another pitcher's win) by protecting one's team's lead during a stint of relief pitching.
13. v. Computer Science To copy (a file) from a computer's main memory to a storage medium.
14. v. To avoid waste or expense; economize.
15. v. To accumulate money: saving for a vacation.
16. v. To preserve a person or thing from harm or loss.
17. n. Sports An act that prevents an opponent from scoring.
18. n. Baseball A preservation by a relief pitcher of another pitcher's win.
19. idiom. save (one's) breath To refrain from a futile appeal or effort: Save your breath; you can't dissuade them.
20. prep. With the exception of; except: "No man enjoys self-reproach save a masochist” ( Philip Wylie).
21. conj. Were it not; except: The house would be finished by now, save that we had difficulty contracting a roofer.
22. conj. Unless.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To preserve from danger, injury, loss, destruction, or evil of any kind; wrest or keep from impending danger; rescue: as, to save a house from burning, or a man from drowning; to save a family from ruin.
2. To deliver from the power and penal consequences of sin; rescue from sin and spiritual death.
3. To deliver; defend.
4. To spare: as, to save one's self much trouble and expense.
5. To use or preserve with frugal care; keep fresh or good, as for future use; husband: as, to save one's clothes; to save one's strength for a final effort.
6. To avoid, curtail, or lessen; especially, to lessen waste in or of; economize: as, to save time, expense, or labor.
7. To lay by, little by little, and as the result of frugal care; lay up; hoard: as, he has saved quite a good sum out of his scanty earnings.
8. To take advantage of; utilize; avoid missing or losing; be in time for; catch: as, to save the tide.
9. To prevent the occurrence, use, or necessity of; obviate: as, a stitch in time saves nine.
10. Synonyms and To redeem.
11. To protect.
12. To be economical; keep from spending; spare.
13. To be capable of preservation: said of fish: as, to save well.
14. Except; not including; leaving out of account; unless.
15. n. The herb sage or salvia.

Wiktionary

1. n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
2. n. baseball When a relief pitcher comes into a game with a 3 run or less lead, and his team wins while continually being ahead.
3. n. professional wrestling, slang A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
4. n. computing The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
5. v. transitive To help (somebody) to survive, or keep (somebody) from harm.
6. v. transitive To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
7. v. transitive To store for future use.
8. v. transitive To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
9. v. transitive To obviate or make unnecessary.
10. v. transitive, computing To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
11. v. transitive, theology To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
12. v. intransitive To economize or avoid waste.
13. v. transitive and intransitive To accumulate money or valuables.
14. v. sports To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
15. prep. Except; with the exception of.
16. conj. dated unless; except

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete The herb sage, or salvia.
2. v. To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger.
3. v. (Theol.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
4. v. To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
5. v. To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
6. v. To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
7. v. To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
8. v. To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
9. Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
10. conj. Except; unless.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. retain rights to
2. n. (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
3. v. make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
4. v. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
5. v. refrain from harming
6. v. accumulate money for future use
7. v. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
8. v. spend less; buy at a reduced price
9. v. bring into safety
10. v. save from ruin, destruction, or harm
11. v. save from sins
12. v. record data on a computer