save

IPA: sˈeɪv

An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
(baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
(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.
(informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
(roleplaying games) A saving throw.
A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.
A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.

(transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
(Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
(baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
To put aside, to avoid.
(transitive) To store for future use.
(transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
(transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
(transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
(intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
(transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
(reflexive, idiomatic, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
(informal) To avoid saying something.

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