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To prevent harm or difficulty.

To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.

To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.

(ditransitive)To spare (somebody) (from effort, or from something undesirable).

To redeem, protect, rescue, or keep (someone) from eternal damnation.

(sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).

(baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.

To put aside; to avoid.

To store for future use.

To conserve or prevent the wasting of.

To obviate or make unnecessary.

(video games) To write (a file) to disk or other storage medium.

(economize) To economize or avoid waste, often with on.

To accumulate (money or other valuables or resources), often with up and/or for.

(archaic) To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.

(“for”) To refrain from romantic or {{q|especially in later use}} sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.

(informal) To repress or avoid saying (something).

An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.

In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.

(baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.

(slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.

(informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.

(computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.

(RPG) A saving throw.

Except; with the exception of.

Unless; except.