Reverse Dictionary: SAVE (keep from danger)

ADJECTIVES
► ILL-HAINED saved to no good purpose → 1773 Sc.
► SALVIFIC tending to save; causing salvation → 1591 obs.
► SALVIFICAL tending to save; causing salvation → 1581 obs.
► SAVED BY THE BELL saved by a lucky intervention → L19 colloq.
► TERMINAL utterly beyond saving, hope, or rescue → colloq.

NOUNS
► SAVATION protection from injury → 1724 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► BERGH to save, to deliver; to give shelter; to protect, to preserve → a1000 obs.
► SAVE ONE’S ARSE ► SAVE ONE’S ASS to save oneself; to take care of oneself → 1960s sl., orig. US
► SKERE to save oneself; to defend → 1390 obs.
► WARISH to save, to rescue; to guard, to secure, to protect, to preserve → c1350 obs.