n. a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls

n. an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle

n. an extra component of a machine or other apparatus

v. save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"

v. be able to spare or give up; "I can't afford to spend two hours with this person"

v. refrain from harming

v. use frugally or carefully

v. give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"

adj. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"

adj. thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"

adj. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"

adj. not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"

adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"

adj. more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

v. provide shelter for; "After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people"

v. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

v. secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"

v. give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"

v. to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

v. secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"

v. use frugally or carefully

adj. functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"

adj. added or derived from something outside; not inherent; "an adscititious habit rather than an inherent taste"

adj. able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"

adj. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"

adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

adj. not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

adj. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

adj. able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"

v. leave; "The family took off for Florida"

adj. enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"

adj. just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"

adj. sufficient to provide comfort; "a comfortable salary"

adj. suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin

adj. composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade; "bladed arsenopyrite"

adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

adj. flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)

adj. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

adj. tall and thin

adj. long and lean

adj. having a lean and bony physique; "a rawboned cow hand"

adj. resembling a reed in being upright and slender

adj. resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a forlorn scarecrowish figure"

adj. being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

adj. having a small waist

adj. having long slender legs

adj. lean and sinewy

adj. thin and weak; "a wispy little fellow with small hands and feet"- Edmund Wilson

adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

adj. not absolutely necessary

adj. more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

adj. unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"

adj. that has been withdrawn or retreated from

adj. not having inhabitants; not lived in; "an uninhabited island"; "gaping doors of uninhabited houses"

adj. not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane"

adj. not leased to or occupied by a tenant; "an unoccupied apartment"; "very little unclaimed and untenanted land"

adj. extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"

adj. of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"

adj. contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

adj. not absolutely necessary

adj. unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life"

adj. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"

adj. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food"