Definition of "save" []

• To rescue from harm, danger, or loss. (verb-transitive)
• To set free from the consequences of sin; redeem. (verb-transitive)
• To keep in a safe condition; safeguard. (verb-transitive)
• To prevent the waste or loss of; conserve. (verb-transitive)
• To avoid spending (money) so as to keep or accumulate it. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Real Madrid keeper only let two goals by him in seven games, and no save was bigger than Casillas 'save on Robben's breakaway."
• "Instead of a desperate search to find the one great idea that will save us from ecological disaster, we are being invited to a transformation of individual and social goals that will bring us closer to the reality of interdependent life in a variegated world – whether or not we find we can 'save the planet '."
• "The ratio is not 'save a life or not; 'it's 'save this life or save dozens of others next year.'"