spare

Definitions of spare in various dictionaries:

noun - an extra component of a machine or other apparatus

noun - an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle

noun - a score in tenpins

verb - refrain from harming

verb - save or relieve from an experience or action

verb - give up what is not strictly needed

verb - use frugally or carefully

adj - thin and fit

adj - more than is needed, desired, or required

adj - not taken up by scheduled activities

adj - kept in reserve especially for emergency use

adj - lacking in amplitude or quantity

adj - lacking embellishment or ornamentation

To refrain from treating harshly; treat mercifully or leniently.

To refrain from harming or destroying.

To save or relieve from experiencing or doing (something): spared herself the trouble of going.

To hold back from; withhold or avoid: spared no expense for the celebration.

To use with restraint: Don’t spare the mustard.

To give or grant out of one’s resources; afford: Can you spare ten minutes? — v.

To be frugal.

To refrain from inflicting harm; be merciful or lenient.

Kept in reserve: a spare part; a spare pair of sneakers.

Being in excess of what is needed; extra.

Free for other use; unoccupied: spare time.

Lean and trim.

Not profuse or copious.

A replacement, especially a tire, reserved for future need.

Sports.

The act of knocking down all ten pins with two successive rolls of a bowling ball.

The score so made.

adv - deficient in quantity or quality [ adj ] : MEAGERLY

verb - to refrain from punishing, harming, or destroying