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 Translation for 'to save sb sth' from English to French
sauver qn./qc.to save sb./sth. [rescue]
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éviter qc. à qn.to save sb. sth.
Partial Matches
soustraire qn. à la mortto save sb. from death
être la providence de qn.to save sb.'s life
sauver la mise à qn. [loc.]to save sb.'s bacon [idiom]
rattraper qc. [situation]to save sth.
inform.
enregistrer qc.
to save sth.
écon.
économiser qc. [chauffage]
to save on sth.
fin.
économiser qc. [argent, somme]
to save sth. (up)
sauvegarder qc.to save sth. [preserve]
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épargner (qc.) [argent]to save (sth.) [money]
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éviter de faire qc.to save oneself from doing sth.
fin.
faire l'économie de qc.
to save the cost of sth.
qn. a hâte que qn./qc. fasse qc.sb. can't wait for sb./sth. to do sth.
éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.to move sb/sth. away from sb./sth.
placer qn. sous la protection de qn./qc.to place sb. under the protection of sb./sth.
confondre qn./qc. avec qn./qc. (d'autre)to mistake sb./sth. for sb./sth. (else)
tenir qn./qc. hors de portée de qn./qc.to keep sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
assimiler qn./qc. à qn./qc.to bracket sb./sth. with sb./sth. [equate]
soustraire qn./qc. à la vue de qn.to hide sb./sth. from sb.'s view
habituer qn./qc. à qn./qc.to get sb./sth. used to sb./sth.
enlever qn./qc. à qn./qc.to take sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • Gradually, starting in the mid-16th century, one plate element after another was discarded to save weight for foot soldiers.
  • The CD32 was a next-generation CDTV, and it was designed to save Commodore by entering the growing video game console market.
  • In 1914, Claridge's Company entered into a joint venture to produce tar-bound macadam, and in a subsequent attempt to save the Clarmac Company.
  • The name was one of the epithets given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors".
  • The word "italic" is derived from early Italian versions of italic faces, which were designed primarily in order to save on the cost of paper.

  • AOL took the decision to shut down Lifestream on February 24, 2017, and gave users one month's notice to save photos and videos that had been uploaded to Lifestream.
  • Salamanders use their tails in defence and some are prepared to jettison them to save their lives in a process known as autotomy.
  • Later, when Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.
  • Comics historian Les Daniels noted that "Steve Ditko squeezes every ounce of anguish out of Spider-Man's predicament, complete with visions of the uncle he failed and the aunt he has sworn to save."
  • The decision was taken to save the bridge, but by early 2010 no plans had been announced as to its future use.

  • Virtually all the key players on the 1997 Marlins team were soon traded or let go to save payroll costs (although the 2003 Marlins did win a second world championship).
  • The town is served by the Lancashire Constabulary Police station on Broadway after moving into town from its previous location on Manchester Road as an effort to save money due to rising expenses and decreasing funding by the government.
  • Both Android and iOS versions allow the user to save files on-line — or off-line in the absence of an Internet connection.
  • He may have done so to save space and he put no year 0 between them.
  • The city's Nubian Museum is an important archaeological center, containing finds from the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia prior to the Aswan Dam's flooding of all of Lower Nubia.

  • In some professional systems, particularly satellite links between locations, the digital audio is embedded within the line sync pulses of the video signal, to save the cost of renting a second channel.
  • An abortion is medically referred to as a therapeutic abortion when it is performed to save the life of the pregnant woman; to prevent harm to the woman's physical or mental health; to terminate a pregnancy where indications are that the child will have a significantly increased chance of mortality or morbidity; or to selectively reduce the number of fetuses to lessen health risks associated with multiple pregnancy.
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