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lifesaving

adj

Etymology

From life + saving.

  1. derived from salvo — “to save”
  2. derived from sauver
  3. inherited from saven
  4. formed as saving — “save + -ing”
  5. compounded as lifesaving — “life + saving”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of life-saving.

    • The lifesaving surgery is expensive, but so is a funeral.

  2. The act of saving a life, especially from drowning.

    • I’m normally a big fan of lifesaving, but in his case we can make an exception.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lifesaving. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA