Dendril
    Dendril Roots
      save
      noun
      An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
      In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
      (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
      (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
      (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
      (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
      (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
      A river in southeastern Africa that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.
      A river in southern France that flows about 143 km (89 mi) from the Pyrenees to the Garonne at Grenade.
      verb
      (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
      To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
      To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
      To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
      (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
      (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
      (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
      To put aside; to avoid.
      (transitive) To store for future use.
      (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
      (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
      (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
      (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
      (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
      (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
      (informal) To avoid saying something.
      (transitive, gambling, slang, archaic) To make an agreement to give (some amount of money) to a fellow gambler if one wins, and to receive that amount from them if they win, as a form of hedging.
      Roots
      salvussav- · Latin · safe, unharmed
      Synonyms for save
      economizevpreservevsalvagevspareadjredeemvconservevkeepvrescuenrelievevprotectvrestorevsafeguardvavertvretrievev
      Words related to save
      savableadjunsavedadjsavernsalvageableadjsavingsnlifesavingnsparernreclaimedadjsparestnredemptoryadjredemptiveadjscrimpsvrescuernransomedadjscrimpervspendvsalvagernpreservationnlaborsavingadjconservableadjunredeemedadjscrimpingvhelpsvpreserverneconomizernlifesavern

      Synonyms & related words for save

      Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of save — including economize, preserve, salvage, spare, redeem, conserve. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

      Words related to save

      Explore words related to save — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include savable, unsaved, saver, salvageable, savings, lifesaving, sparer, reclaimed. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

      Synonyms for save

      Common synonyms for save include economize, preserve, salvage, spare, redeem, conserve, keep, rescue — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

      Where does save come from?

      The word save breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root sav-, from Latin salvus (“safe, unharmed”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

      © 2026 Dendril · Credits Explore roots