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Spare

adjective
(compar. sparer; superl. sparest)
1.
Thin and fit.  Synonym: trim.  "A body kept trim by exercise"
2.
More than is needed, desired, or required.  Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus.  "Found some extra change lying on the dresser" , "Yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant" , "Skills made redundant by technological advance" , "Sleeping in the spare room" , "Supernumerary ornamentation" , "It was supererogatory of her to gloat" , "Delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words" , "Extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts" , "Surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
3.
Not taken up by scheduled activities.  Synonym: free.  "Spare time on my hands"
4.
Kept in reserve especially for emergency use.  "A spare tire" , "Spare parts"
5.
Lacking in amplitude or quantity.  Synonyms: bare, scanty.  "A scanty harvest" , "A spare diet"
6.
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation.  Synonyms: bare, plain, unembellished, unornamented.  "Unembellished white walls" , "Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
verb
(past & past part. spared; pres. part. sparing)
1.
Refrain from harming.  Synonym: save.
2.
Save or relieve from an experience or action.
3.
Give up what is not strictly needed.  Synonyms: dispense with, give up, part with.
4.
Use frugally or carefully.
noun
1.
An extra component of a machine or other apparatus.  Synonym: spare part.
2.
An extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle.  Synonym: fifth wheel.
3.
A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls.



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"Spare" Quotes from Famous Books



... closets at the old mansion where you once paid a visit—in a coach—is all dissipated. They have turned out to be the merest cupboards in the wall. Nat, who had travelled and seen London, is by no means so surprising a fellow to your manhood as he was to the boy. He has grown spare, and wears spectacles. He is not so famous as he was. You would hardly think of consulting him now about your marriage, or even about the price ...
— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell
... Kid Wolf could not spare his enemies now. His own life depended on his flashing Colt. He lined the tip of his front sight ...
— Kid Wolf of Texas - A Western Story • Ward M. Stevens
... the subject in his thoughts, the more probable it appeared to Dick that the miserable little servant was the culprit. When he considered on what a spare allowance of food she lived, how neglected and untaught she was, and how her natural cunning had been sharpened by necessity and privation, he scarcely doubted it. And yet he pitied her so much, and felt so unwilling to have a matter of such gravity disturbing ...
— Ten Girls from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... congratulation to know that the Secretary will not spare any effort to make this part ...
— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland
... has," said Dick shortly. "I wouldn't say so much as that to any mortal but yourself. Now spare me, Ellery, and don't carry it any further. Do you think," he went on bitterly, "that I have not gone over the whole ground and told myself the old truths that never mean anything to you until life rams them home on your consciousness? A man may creep out ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter


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