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Sparing
- verb - avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
- give up what is not strictly needed; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"
- use frugally or carefully
Sparked
- verb - emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark"
- put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
Sparker
- noun - a wire net to stop sparks from an open fireplace or smokestack
Sparkle
- noun - be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall"
- become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water"
- emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark"
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"
- reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside"
- the occurrence of a small flash or spark
- the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
Sparkly
- adjective - having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term"
- marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
Sparoid
- - Of or pertaining to the Sparidae, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream. -- n. One of the Sparidae.
Sparred
- verb - box lightly
- fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
- fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"
- furnish with spars
Sparrow
- noun - any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
- small brownish European songbird
Sparser
- unknown - more sparse
- Rarer, thinner, more spread out
Sparsim
- - Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there.