to spare
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3.3
- verb
- /spɛr/
:
ahorrar (a alguien)
- And I did that to spare you the humiliation.
- spare someone the effort
- spare someone the pain
And yeah, I mean, fortunately, of course, we were, we were our locations were spared.
- And yeah, I mean, fortunately, of course, we were, we were our locations were spared.
- The scapegoat is why narcissistic people often still have people around them, because they were all spared the abuse.
- That person brings peace to his ancestors and spares the children that follow.
Examples
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You're trying to, like, spare them the feeling of being useless.
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I was hoping my actions would spare our men unnecessary losses.
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I guess he wanted to spare me from all this.
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So we decided to spare ourselves any possible embarrassment.
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Addressing the threat now will spare the United States from confronting a far more dangerous situation in the future.
Academic text (2012) -
The commonwealth of Chicago has been spared the necessity of taking a human life.
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Therefore, most Irish children were spared the massive assault on local religious values that each Indian child faced.
Academic text (1999) -
So Lot himself is no prize, but he is spared on Abraham's account.
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But there might still be time to spare herself the humiliation of having Cy know what she'd done.
Fiction book (1991) -
I wanted to spare her the heartache of seeing him again.
Synonyms
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1.0
Rescue someone or something from danger
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Etymology
Spare comes from the idea of 'saving' someone from something, so to spare someone the details is to save them from hearing something unpleasant.