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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

unspared adjective

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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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Even downtown business owners who were spared severe damage were upset and trying to make sense of the destruction.

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For many years, Austria had been spared the pain of mass school shootings.

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Mexico and Canada, those countries have been spared an arduous qualifying competition — tense games that would have steeled them for the tournament ahead.

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Meanwhile, war continued overnight, with Moscow launching a record 479 drones at Ukraine, including on the western region of Rivne that had been largely spared from attacks.

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When he missed the Test against Zimbabwe, England were spared the decision on whether to include him in their team and reverted back to their established top seven.

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