Sparing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPARING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SPARE, to refrain from punishing, harming, or destroying
• give (something of which one has enough) to (someone)
• make free or available
• refrain from killing, injuring, or distressing
• refrain from inflicting (something unpleasant) on (someone)
• be frugal
• try to ensure or satisfy one's own comfort or needs
NOUN:
• an item kept in case another item of the same type is lost, broken, or worn out
• (in tenpin bowling) an act of knocking down all the pins with two balls.
ADJECTIVE:
• additional to what is required for ordinary use
• not currently in use or occupied
• with no excess fat; thin
• elegantly simple
• Spare; saving; frugal; merciful.
• avoiding waste
• economical
• (of time) not taken up by one's usual duties or activities; available for leisure
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present participle of spare

Words related to SPARING

abstemious14 economical16 spare7 spared9 spares8 sparingly15 sparingness14

Words that contain SPARING

sparingly15 unsparing12 sparingness14 unsparingly17 sparingnesses16 unsparingness16 unsparingnesses18

How to use SPARING in a sentence

• That they had extended their empire more by sparing the vanquished than by conquering.
• I therefore prosecuted my inquiries in every possible direction, sparing myself neither labour nor pains.
• Rawlins and Robinson joined them, sparing Graham a further defence.
• Thus they were capable of sparing some of their wealth for investment in objects which brought them a finer kind of reward than the financial.
• Other things, too, Jane had learned and reported, which she knew the chief appreciated even though he was sparing in his thanks and compliments.
• Her earliest joy was that she was permitted to see that the Lord had some purpose in sparing her so long.
• But after passing the heavy timber it had veered several degrees, and was sparing the house of Mrs.
• Never sparing himself labour when he thought duty called, he did not avail himself of the privilege of advancing years to leave the war to be carried on by younger champions.
• At an early hour, as though something uncommon was expected, parties of boys, apprentices, and soldiers strolled through the streets, and neither side was sparing of insult.
• In sparing the King, he sacrifices Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Laertes, the Queen and himself.
• This would be but the prelude to a larger slaughter, for I had not forgotten what he said as to the sparing of Marie and the other hints he gave me.
• The good seed was sown with no sparing hand, and though some lay weeks, months and even years without bearing fruit, yet few were altogether lost.
• A tribe among them he oppressed, killing their sons and sparing their women.
• Surely God has been most merciful to us in sparing us such an anguish, and bringing our wanderer home before this day of doom.
• Therefore, if it be right to be sparing of condemnation for another, it is also wise to be chary of undue commendation.
• A quiet man, sparing of speech, in all things relying entirely upon God.
• In this inspired cause, she had no thought of sparing herself, or them, from self-denial or self-sacrifice.
• The latter managed and arranged everything for him, sparing his old age not a whit, and the allied forces readily assisted the father in remembrance of his old-time deeds.
• They were clear, brief, stern appeals to conscience and reason, sparing of words, utterly without rhetoric, intense in purpose.
• Every one that has been long dead has a due Proportion of Praise allotted him, in which whilst he lived his Friends were too profuse and his Enemies too sparing.
• Then oil the parts as above described connected with the verge and be very sparing of the oil, for too little is better than too much.
• Garniers wife, so wertous and sparing a house wife she was that Wine never entred in hir mouth.
• She was sparing, and the poor prince retired to France in September.
• And when Goldborough came, they made a feast, sparing neither flesh nor fowl, wine nor ale.
• I will go further, and say that, for the sparing of human blood, I sincerely wish for peace.
• For the principal thing to be aimed at is the preservation and defense of that fort, and after that the sparing of my royal exchequer.
• He stretched his arm to the highest shelf, then dived into drawers beneath the counter, sparing no pains to show the best goods to his customers.
• Madame de Gyas thereupon allowed herself the happiness of repeating all the current gossip, not sparing her two friends a single stab.

Similar words containing SPAR without suffix ing

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