spare 的 4 个定义
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.
- (10)
spared, spar·ing.
- to use economy; be frugal.
- to refrain from inflicting injury or punishment; exercise lenience or mercy.
- Obsolete. to refrain from action; forbear.
spar·er, spar·est.
- kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
- being in excess of present need; free for other use: spare time.
- frugally restricted or meager, as a manner of living or a diet: a spare regime.
- (6)
- a spare thing, part, etc., as an extra tire for emergency use.
- Ceramics. an area at the top of a plaster mold for holding excess slip.
- Bowling. the knocking down of all the pins with two bowls.a score so made.Compare strike.
spare 近义词
extra, reserve
thin; sparse
do or manage without
forgive; have mercy upon
spare 的近义词 29 个
- excuse
- exempt
- leave
- pardon
- refrain from
- absolve
- discharge
- dispense
- forbear
- pity
- release
- relent
- spring
- bail out
- be lenient
- be merciful
- get off the hook
- get out of hock
- give a break
- give quarter to
- go easy on
- let go
- let off
- privilege from
- pull out of the fire
- relieve from
- save bacon
- save from
- save neck
spare 的反义词 3 个
由spare构成的短语
- spare the rod and spoil the child
- spare tire
- to spare
更多spare例句
- 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.
- He threw himself on his knees, begging us, in the name of God and all the saints, to spare his life.
- Harry took his bed into the spare-room, and Black Sheep lay down to die.
- You may rest assured that I will spare no time or attention to promote the performance of this engine.
- I assure you that it is as I say—neither at the post-house nor at any of the inns I visited could I find me a spare horse.