Englishsave
verb
1 the captain was saved by his crew when a windshield blew out during the flight:
rescue, come to someone's rescue, save someone's life, come to someone's aid;
set free, free, liberate, deliver, extricate, snatch;
bail out;
Nautical bring off;
informal save someone's bacon, save someone's neck, save someone's skin.
▷antonyms endanger.
2 the fifteenth century farmhouse has been saved from demolition:
preserve, keep safe, keep, protect, safeguard, guard, conserve;
salvage, retrieve, reclaim, rescue.
3 we've saved enough for a deposit on a house | start saving newspapers to use for wrapping china:
put aside, set aside, lay aside, put by, put to one side, lay by, keep, retain, reserve, keep in reserve, conserve, stockpile, store, hoard, save for a rainy day, keep for future use, put in a safe place;
collect, amass;
North American set by;
informal salt away, squirrel away, stash away, hang onto.
▷antonyms waste, fritter away, use up.
4 I suppose I'll have to start saving:
economize, be (more) economical, make economies, scrimp, scrimp and scrape;
be thrifty, be frugal, tighten one's belt, cut back, make cutbacks, budget, retrench, husband one's resources, cut costs, cut expenditure, draw in one's horns, watch one's pennies;
North American pinch pennies;
US, dialect rake and scrape.
▷antonyms spend, be extravagant.