save

1. verb

1)

the captain was saved by his crew

Syn:

rescue, come to someone's rescue, save someone's life; set free, free, liberate, deliver, extricate; bail out; informal save someone's bacon/neck/skin

2)

the farmhouse has been saved from demolition

Syn:

preserve, keep safe, keep, protect, safeguard; salvage, retrieve, reclaim, rescue

3)

start saving money

Syn:

put aside, set aside, put by, put to one side, save up, keep, retain, reserve, conserve, stockpile, store, hoard, save for a rainy day; informal salt away, squirrel away, stash away, hang on to

4)

asking me first would have saved a lot of trouble

Syn:

prevent, obviate, forestall, spare; stop; avoid, avert

2. preposition & conjunction, formal

no one needed to know save herself

Syn:

except, apart from, but, other than, besides, aside from, bar, barring, excluding, leaving out, saving; informal outside of