Rescue and Spare

Rescue

Rescue verb - To remove from danger or harm.

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Spare and rescue are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Spare" with "Rescue", this verbs are similar.

Nearby Words: rescued, rescuer, rescuing

Spare verb - To use or give out in stingy amounts.

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Rescue and spare are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Rescue" instead a verb "Spare".

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

girl	rescue girl	spare girl
soul	rescue soul	spare soul
character	rescue character	spare character
man	rescue man	spare man
Other words: boy, men, children, family, someone, rest, mother, father, child, brother, everyone, son, daughter, sister, friends, prisoners.

Subverted (very tragically) in The Mist- it turns out the army DID come to the rescue... after the protagonist had already killed his family to spare them being eaten alive by the mist's monsters.

Source: We Just Need to Wait for Rescue
The rest of the heroes barely figure it out in time, with Yumi arriving to rescue Odd with only seconds to spare.

Source: Lured into a Trap
Did the secretary of defense stand up and say, 'We can't spare the military personnel to rescue our president.

Source: No Plot? No Problem!

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