transitive verb saved, saving
- to rescue or preserve from harm, danger, injury, etc.; make or keep safe
- to keep in health and well-being: now only in certain formulas: God save the king!
- to preserve for future use; lay by: often with up
- to prevent or guard against loss or waste of: to save time, to save a game
- to avoid, prevent, lessen, or guard against: to save wear and tear
- to treat or use carefully in order to preserve, lessen wear, etc.
- Comput. to copy (data, a file, etc.) from random-access memory to a disk, tape, etc. for storage
- Theol. to deliver from sin and its penalties