spare
Significado (inglés)
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- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- (informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
Sinónimos
be economical with
not waste
use carefully
yield
be sparing with
husband one’s resources
think a pity
careful with
control oneself
restrain oneself
use sparingly
show mercy
be weary of
use part of something
give relief
give relief to
reserve equipment
backup unit
cause to remain
be temperate
in excess
abstain from something
leave as a remainder
be abstemious
slab sided
abstain
be sorry about
have mercy on
raw boned
ready-for-use
repent of
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈspɛə(ɹ)/
Etimoloxía (inglés)
From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-. Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”).
Relacionado con neerlandés
spaarzaam
Relacionado con alemán
sparsam
Relacionado con neerlandés
sparen
Relacionado con alemán
sparen
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