SPARED

Definition: SPARED

SPARED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Spare

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPARED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Life

Verb: be alive. Adjective: live, breathe, respire; subsist. (exist); walk the earth "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage"; be spared.

Requirement

Phrase: there is no time to lose; it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with; mendacem memorem esse oportet; necessitas non habet legem; nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.

Crosswords: SPARED

On behalf of my country and in the name of the other leaders of the world with whom I have today consulted, I hereby abdicate all authority and control over this planet to General Zod. Only by following all his directives will the lives of millions be spared (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

I spared no expenses (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

The Lord has drowned the wicked and spared the righteous (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I spared him. (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

No, you have insulted me. I spared his life (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; writing credit: George Lucas; Willard Huyck)

'Cos you're gonna be spared (Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress); performing artist: Hollies)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• God spared a few to tell the tale : eine Analyse von Interviews mit Ex-Sklaven aus Arkansas, USA (reference)

• He Spared Himself in Nothing: Essays on the Life and Thought of John Nepomucene Neumann C.Ss.R. (reference)

• Human Rights Abuses in Algeria: No One Is Spared (reference)

• If we are spared to each other : love and faith against the sea : the diary of Annie Rogers Butler and letters of Captain John Kendrick Butler (reference)

• Spared Angola: Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• No Expense Spared (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Cattle forage on on strip of grass spared by the August 1999 fires, Elko County, Nevada. Credit: Cari Brown.

No effort spared in his education. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Geneva Conventions : in occupied territory, civilians not taking part in hostilities must be spared and protected. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

That as much as may be, all the members of the society are to be preserved: for since many accidents may happen, wherein a strict and rigid observation of the laws may do harm; (as not to pull down an innocent man's house to stop the fire, when the next to it is burning) and a man may come sometimes within the reach of the law, which makes no distinction of persons, by an action that may deserve reward and pardon; 'tis fit the ruler should have a power, in many cases, to mitigate the severity of the law, and pardon some offenders: for the end of government being the preservation of all, as much as may be, even the guilty are to be spared, where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. (Second Treatise of Government)

Up till the year 1933 or even 1935, Germany might have been saved from the awful fate which has overtaken her and we might all have been spared the miseries Hitler let loose upon mankind. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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There was little sympathy to be spared for any body else

There was a look of pain in her face, which I would gladly have been spared the sight of.

One thing had astonished him, that Jean Valjean had spared him, and one thing had petrified him, that he, Javert, had spared Jean Valjean

God had spared him still

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Only the tumor receives the high doses of radiation and healthy tissue is spared. (references)

By taking a moment to ask questions, your child may be spared from possible problems. (references)

A form of cerebral palsy in which spasticity affects both legs but the arms are relatively or completely spared. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

The life of an eighth suspected criminal, a GSU policeman, reportedly was spared following pleas from his pregnant wife; however, police arrested and reportedly beat him. (references)

Pakistan

Many accused, especially well-connected persons who are made aware of impending warrants against them, are able to obtain prearrest bail, and thus are spared arrest and incarceration. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

In May 2000, five masked men stopped a factory bus in Ferozwala on which female factory employees were traveling and raped six to eight Christian girls who were passengers; the assailants reportedly spared the two Muslim passengers on the bus. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "SPARED": be spared ♦ no expense spared. Additional references.

Ending with "SPARED": no-expense-spared.

Chinese 

饶恕 (forgiveness, sparing). (various references)

Finnish

säilyä (be maintained, be preserved, be retained, be safeguarded, be spared, endure, escape, keep, last), säästyä (be left over, be preserved, be saved, be spared, escape), jos minulle elonpäiviä suodaan (if I am spared), ei säästänyt vaivojaan (he spared no pains). (various references)

French

sans considération de frais (no expense spared). (various references)

German

schonte, ungeschoren (scot free, unshorn), geschont. (various references)

Hungarian

ha megérjük (if we are spared). (various references)

Italian

salvare (be spared, deliver, keep, redeem, rescue, salvage, save). (various references)

Korean 

절약하는. (various references)

Manx

spaarit (afforded, saved), shaghnit (avoided, deferred), lhiggit lesh (yielded), fordrit. (various references)

Pig Latin

aredspay.(various references)

Russian 

уделять;избавлять. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"SPARED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pshared, Saperda, sarde, sared, sarod, Sarpedon, separee, spabed, spaer, spaire, spamed, sparat, sparre, sparren, sparued, spawed, speard, sperd, spiread, spired, spored, sprade, spred, spuare, spurued, Supadriv. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: drapes, padres, parsed, rasped, spader, spread.

-1 letter: apers, apres, asper, dares, dears, drape, padre, pards, pared, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, raped, rapes, rased, reads, reaps, spade, spaed, spare, spear.

-2 letters: aped, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, daps, dare, dear, ears, eras, pads, pard, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, peds, rads, rape, raps, rase, rasp, read, reap, reds, reps.

+1 letter: aspired, dampers, departs, despair, diapers, drapers, grasped, padders, panders, parades, pedlars, petards, phrased, praised, redcaps, respade, scarped, scraped, sharped, spaders, sparged, sparked, sparred, speared, sprayed, spreads.

+2 letters: adapters, adopters, airspeed, apprised, aspersed, bedrapes, bespread, depraves, despairs, diaspore, dispread, eardrops, ephedras, escarped, feldspar, jeopards, leopards, operands, paddlers, padrones, pandores, paraders, paradise, pardners, parodies, parslied, pastored, pastured, pederast, peracids, persuade, pervades, pleaders, predates, predawns, prefades, presaged, presidia, rapeseed, raphides, rapidest, readapts, readopts, relapsed, repassed, repasted, repleads, reshaped, respaced, respaded, respades, respread, rhapsode, scarphed, scorepad, scrapped, spandrel, sparkled, spiraled, spraddle, sprained, sprawled, spreader, strapped, superadd, superbad, traipsed, trapesed, undrapes, updaters, upgrades, upraised, upsoared, upstared.