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spare

verb
  1. To treat with inordinate gentleness and care: favor. Idiom: handle (or treat) with kid gloves. See treat well
  2. To free from an obligation or duty: absolve, discharge, dispense, excuse, exempt, let off, relieve. See free
  3. To use without wasting: conserve, economize, save. See save
adjective
  1. Being more than is needed, desired, or appropriate: de trop, excess, extra, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus. See excess
  2. Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent: exiguous, meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, sparse, stingy, thin. Slang: measly. See big, excess
  3. Having little flesh or fat on the body: angular, bony, fleshless, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean 2, meager, rawboned, scrawny, skinny, slender, slim, thin, twiggy, weedy. Idioms: all skin and bones, thin as a rail. See fat
  4. Characterized by an economy of artistic expression: lean 2, tight. See style

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