Spare

Morpheme

Spare

Type

free base

Denotation

refrain from injuring, save from harm, use sparsely, stop, preserve, keep, extra

Etymology

Middle English spare, spar, sparren, sparen; Old English spær, sparian, spearian

Evidence

spare, spared, sparely, spareness, sparer, spareribs, spares, sparing, sparingly, unspared, unsparing

Homographs

Spare