spare
verb (used with object)
to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy.
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His great desire, as he always proved, was never to destroy his enemies by the number of one man spareable.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore