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spared

[ spaird ]

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adjective

left intact; not damaged, punished, destroyed, killed, etc.:
After a seven-month siege they captured the city, and the spared captives were taken into exile.
After a brain injury in early childhood, language function is typically transferred to the spared hemisphere.
dispensed with or done without:
I finally obtained a little ready money by converting some easily spared articles of jewelry into cash.
used frugally or not used; withheld; not spent:
At no spared effort or expense, the enhanced design protocol has been applied to all the products in our new lineup.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of spare.

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Other Word Forms

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Word History and Origins

Origin of spared¹

First recorded in 1575–85; spare ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; spare ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

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They must be given “a reasonable time ... that will allow them” to make their case on why they should be spared from deportation, the justices said.

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Pharmaceutical buyers, so far spared from such measures, are now preparing for what may come next.

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The administration spared those materials, along with copper, from its latest tariffs.

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The California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty conviction of one of L.A.’s most notorious gang killers Thursday, saying a juror who likely would have spared Timothy McGhee from execution was wrongly dismissed.

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The historic buildings and land that the January fires spared and destroyed.

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