SAVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saved mean? 

• SAVED (adjective)
  The adjective SAVED has 2 senses:

1. rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin

2. guarded from injury or destruction

  Familiarity information: SAVED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin

Context example:

a saved soul

Similar:

blessed (enjoying the bliss of heaven)

ransomed (reclaimed by payment of a ransom)

reclaimed; rescued (delivered from danger)

ransomed; redeemed (saved from the bondage of sin)

salvageable (capable of being saved from ruin)

Also:

blessed; blest (highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace))

found (come upon unexpectedly or after searching)

regenerate (reformed spiritually or morally)

Antonym:

lost (spiritually or physically doomed or destroyed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Guarded from injury or destruction

Synonyms:

protected; saved

Similar:

preserved (kept intact or in a particular condition)

 Context examples 

There was no need of any words when they got home, for Father and Mother saw plainly now what they had prayed to be saved from seeing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I let him take them, therefore, from the hiding-place, and so saved myself an infinity of trouble.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saved himself by springing back, the jaws snapping together a scant six inches from his thigh.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He stood on the shore and considered what he should do, when suddenly he saw three fishes come swimming towards him, and they were the very fishes whose lives he had saved.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The letter I am looking for was one written by Mr Elliot to him before our marriage, and happened to be saved; why, one can hardly imagine.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I have saved the most important news for last.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And yet he saved his time.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I heard from Major Prendergast how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have saved her life this time, and you can go home and rest easy in mind that all that can be is.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Yet the food you have eaten or wasted might have saved the lives of a score of wretches who made the food but did not eat it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)