Give and Spare

Give

Give verb - To make a present of.

Spare is a synonym for give. In some cases you can use "Spare" instead a verb "Give".

Nearby Words: giving, given, giver

Spare

Spare verb - Give up what is not strictly needed.
Usage example: he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey

Give is a synonym for spare in afford topic. Sometimes you can use "Give" instead a verb "Spare", if it concerns topics such as do or manage without.

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

Common collocations

experience give experience spare experience
thought give thought spare thought
character give character spare character
life give life spare life
Other words: trouble, death, lives.

Both words in one sentence

  • The problem is, your inventory is very limited, and you are not likely to carry around a spare firearm to give away.
  • For all his trouble, he is at last instructed to give up his daughters to the 456 because they surely can't give up their children, whereupon he chooses to commit Pater Familicide to spare them that fate.
  • Comic Strip / Funky Winkerbean Shattered by the revelations, Darin does nothing to comfort his mother or spare kind thoughts for his father, instead wandering off with a smirk to hope the government would give him money.
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