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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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The headlines in state media haven't spared him either: "Trump is probably the worst president in American history," read one on state TV.

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The millionaires and billionaires who might be spared a federal income tax increase, since the gain for the federal budget would be more than $626 billion over a decade.

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Meanwhile, those on the president’s side have been spared cuts, audits and investigations.

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A former aide to Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been spared jail after exposing himself to a teenage girl and following her.

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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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spare spare part

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