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▸ verb:  (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
▸ verb:  To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
▸ verb:  To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
▸ verb:  To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
▸ verb:  (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
▸ verb:  (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
▸ verb:  (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.
▸ verb:  To put aside; to avoid.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To store for future use.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
▸ verb:  (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
▸ verb:  (transitive, gambling, slang, 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.
▸ verb:  (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
▸ verb:  (informal) To avoid saying something.
▸ noun:  An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
▸ noun:  In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
▸ noun:  (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
▸ noun:  (professional wrestling, 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.
▸ noun:  (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
▸ noun:  (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
▸ noun:  (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
▸ noun:  A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.
▸ noun:  A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.

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