lifesaving
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- adjective
- /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/
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salvavidas
- Learning CPR can be lifesaving in situations where every second counts.
- potentially lifesaving
- lifesaving treatment
- lifesaving drug
Examples
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It's chilling to imagine being denied a lifesaving medical procedure just because your government decides.
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It's not that we enjoy talking about these topics; it's because they are lifesaving and vital to our children.
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Little Joey Thomas undergoing a lifesaving operation tonight.
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In turn, this may result in treatment being given which could be lifesaving or completely unnecessary.
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By 2008, more than 2 million people were on lifesaving drug treatments, most of them in Africa.
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Help us tell the Governor to make these lifesaving bills a priority in California.
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Also, when someone goes in the hospital for a lifesaving emergency, it is not reasonable for that person to take costs into consideration.
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Lung transplantation provides a lifesaving opportunity to patients who are terminally ill with lung disease.
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Atypical antipsychotics can be lifesaving for people who have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or severe depression.
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Senegal, for example, has more than 1,400 so-called health huts, where local health workers trained by USAID provide basic and often lifesaving treatments, lowering costs and moving the country closer to the day when U.S. aid will no longer be necessary.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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Needed for a person to stay alive
How Life-Saving
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lifesaving is made of the parts life ('life') and saving ('to save' or 'keep alive'), so as an adjective it describes something that prevents death or serious harm in an emergency.