spare
备用的,剩余的,剩余,空闲时间
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Definitions
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spared, spar·ing.
- : to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- : to deal gently or leniently with; show consideration for: His harsh criticism spared no one.
- : to save from strain, discomfort, embarrassment, or the like, or from a particular cause of it: to spare him the bother; to spare her needless embarrassment.
- : to refrain from, forbear, omit, or withhold, as action or speech: Spare us the gory details.
- : to refrain from employing, as some instrument or recourse: to spare the rod.
- : to set aside for a particular purpose: to spare land for a garden.
- : to give or lend, as from a supply, especially without inconvenience or loss: Can you spare a cup of sugar? Can you spare me a dollar till payday?
- : to dispense with or do without: We can't spare a single worker during the rush hour.
- : to use economically or frugally; refrain from using up or wasting: A walnut sundae, and don't spare the whipped cream!
- : to have remaining as excess or surplus: We can make the curtains and have a yard to spare.
Phrases
- spare the rod and spoil the child
- spare tire
- to spare
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The problem doesn’t spare any of the major platforms and also exists on TripAdvisor and Yelp, although they apparently do a better job of cleaning up fake reviews.
Find a quiet space to record — whether it’s a closet or a spare bedroom — in order to improve the audio quality.
One camp is convinced that the no-expense-spared fight against Covid-19 has put developed economies on course for rising prices on a scale they haven’t seen in decades.
It could also be that lower-income households have less spare time to spend wrangling for a refund.
So in his spare time, he worked for John Shaw Billings, head of the census office’s Division of Vital Statistics.
If the idea of a religious vigilante ambushing sex workers in his spare time sets off alarm bells, it probably should.
The group encompasses Byrne's art-rock solitariness and the dissociation effects in the spare—somewhat Godardian—staging.
We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into.
No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.
He chose a corner spare room with good ventilation, and put aside a spare set of sheets and silverware, just in case.
There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.