1. • 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
2. • 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.
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   • 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.
3. • adv - deficient in quantity or quality [adj] : MEAGERLY
   • v - to refrain from punishing, harming, or destroying

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