save
verb (used with object)
to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss.
unsavable
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a word derived from
save.
Example Sentences
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Surgeons had to remove two teeth that were unsavable, and placed three metal plates in her jaw.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
They left behind 1,500 to 2,000 unsavable eggs, the largest abandonment that scientists who work there could remember.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
They are engines of prosperity and inequality in equal measure, and when the inequality tips poor they look unsavable; when it tips rich, they look unjust.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 5, 2015
But for the great labor of trying to save "the unsavable society" politically, Chambers invoked the classic symbol of stoic stalemate.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have given the life of my soul to save an unsavable clan.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
