Crossword-Solution: SPARE 5 letters, 352 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Spare a. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or
valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
Spare a. To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
Spare a. To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish,
injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
Spare a. To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some
occupation, use, or duty.
Spare a. To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without;
to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
Spare v. i. To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be
parsimonious.
Spare v. i. To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or
forbearance.
Spare v. i. To desist; to stop; to refrain.
Spare v. t. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.
Spare v. t. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
Spare v. t. Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be
used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no
spare time.
Spare v. t. Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare
anchor; a spare bed or room.
Spare v. t. Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
Spare v. t. Slow.
Spare n. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
Spare n. Parsimony; frugal use.
Spare n. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
Spare n. That which has not been used or expended.
Spare n. The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after
having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the
pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a
single spare.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
SPARE anagram APERS, APRES, ASPER, EARPS, EPARS, PARES, PARSE, PEARS, PRAES, PRASE, PRESA, RAPES, RAPSE, RASPE, REAPS, REPAS, SAPER, SERPA, SPEAR

We have 352 clues for the answer “SPARE”

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"Donut" in a car trunk 1 answer
"Not a moment to ___!" 1 answer
"___ the rod . . . " 1 answer
*Consolation for one who doesn't strike 1 answer
/, in a bowling alley 1 answer
/, on some score sheets 1 answer
/, to a bowler 1 answer
A bowler may pick it up 1 answer
Afford to give up 1 answer
Afford without a problem 1 answer
Alley accomplishment 1 answer
Alley conversion 1 answer
Alley feat 1 answer
Alley goal 1 answer
Alley mark 1 answer
Alley success 1 answer
Allow to live 1 answer
Almost a strike 1 answer
Autoist's extra. 1 answer
Be clement 1 answer
Be merciful to 1 answer
Best-selling 2023 memoir 1 answer
Bowler's accomplishment 1 answer
Bowler's consolation 1 answer
Bowler's conversion 1 answer
Bowler's feat 1 answer
Bowler's mark 1 answer
Bowler's next best thing 1 answer
Bowler's pickup 1 answer
Bowler's save 1 answer
Bowling achievement 1 answer
Bowling feat represented by / 1 answer
Bowling mark 1 answer
Bowling result 1 answer
Bowling save* 1 answer
Candlepins feat 1 answer
Car neccessity 1 answer
Certain second attempt success 1 answer
Change variety 1 answer
Consolation for Dick Weber 1 answer
Consolation for Mark Roth 1 answer
Consolation for Randy Lightfoot 1 answer
Convert the 5-7 1 answer
Converted split 1 answer
Converted split, e.g. 1 answer
Cool bowling feat 1 answer
Deal gently with 1 answer
Diagonal line, on a bowling score sheet 1 answer
Diagonal line, on a score sheet 1 answer
Diagonal line, on some score sheets 1 answer
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Sentences with SPARE (5)

She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Admiration seis’d All Heav’n, what this might mean, & whither tend Wondring; but soon th’ Almighty thus reply’d: O thou in Heav’n and Earth the only peace Found out for mankind under wrauth, O thou My sole complacence! well thou know’st how dear, To me are all my works, nor Man the least Though last created, that for him I spare Thee from my bosom and right hand, to save, By loosing thee a while, the whole Race lost.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Lending him what little clothing they could spare among them as a slight protection against the rapidly cooling air, they agreed to land him in the morning; and without further delay, for it was growing late, they made again towards the roadstead where their vessel lay.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The toil and trouble, father, that I bore To find thy lodging-place and how thou faredst, I spare thee; surely ’twere a double pain To suffer, first in act and then in telling; ’Tis the misfortune of thine ill-starred sons I come to tell thee.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with SPARE (3)

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
Augustine of Hippo Homilies on the First Epistle of John
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
Arthur Schopenhauer Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine
Victor Hugo Les Miserables
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 450 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).