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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.

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

(Christianity) To redeem or protect 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.

To accumulate money or valuables.

(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 (''especially in later use'') sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.

(informal) To 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