SPARED Definition & Meaning

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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 51�Թ� Forms

unspared adjective

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51�Թ� 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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Stewart said most businesses in the community were spared from being burned to the ground but are still struggling to reopen and stay viable.

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Although the east of the country and Kyiv come under fire on a regular basis, no corner of Ukraine has been spared by Russian strikes.

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Marwan added that his life was spared only because he lied to the gangs about where he had come from.

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The two crackdowns are similar, according to a lawyer who had represented some of the defendants last year, "but this time, even those with minor involvement weren't spared".

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And for future claimants of universal credit, the most severe cases will be spared from a planned halving of the payments, worth an average of £3,000 per person.

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