Risk and Save

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Risk

Risk verb - To place in danger.
Usage example: we refuse to risk our life savings on this investment scheme
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Save is an antonym for risk in take a chance topic.
Nearby Words: risky, risked, riskiness, risking

Save

Save verb - To remove from danger or harm.
Usage example: the firefighters managed to save the family just as the burning building was collapsing
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Risk is an antonym for save in rescue topic.
Nearby Words: saving, saved, saver
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Common collocations

friend risk friend save friend
soul risk soul save soul
life risk life save life
people risk people save people
Other words: family, reputation, someone, time, way, universe, victim, money, anyone, city, everyone, friends, lives.

Both words in one sentence

  • Disney / The Hunchback of Notre Dame And still later: Frollo: I should have known you would risk your life to save that Gypsy witch, just as your own mother died trying to save you.
    Source: Disney / The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • It works the other way around, too, in which Scully will risk everything to save Mulder.
    Source: Always Save the Girl
  • Tremors. Valentine elbows Earl in the stomach to stun him so Valentine can risk his life running to the tractor to save everyone (and risk being killed by the Graboids).
    Source: Percussive Prevention
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