spared

[ spaird ]
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adjective
  1. 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.

  2. dispensed with or done without: I finally obtained a little ready money by converting some easily spared articles of jewelry into cash.

  1. 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
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of spare.

Origin of spared

1
First recorded in 1575–85; spare + -ed2 for the adjective senses; spare + -ed1 for the verb sense

Other words from spared

  • un·spared, adjective

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