Definition of Spare
Verb: spare spehr
- Refrain from harming
- save
- Save or relieve from an experience or action
"I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"
- Give up what is not strictly needed
"he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey";
- give up, part with, dispense with
- Use frugally or carefully
- Thin and fit
"the spare figure of a marathon runner";
- trim
- More than is needed, desired, or required
"sleeping in the spare room";
- excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
- Not taken up by scheduled activities
"spare time on my hands";
- free
- Kept in reserve especially for emergency use
"a spare tire"; "spare parts"
- Lacking in amplitude or quantity
"a spare diet";
- bare, scanty
- Lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- plain, bare, unembellished, unornamented
- [Brit] Very angry
- hot under the collar
- An extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- spare part
- An extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- fifth wheel
- A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
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