I.
noun in football/soccer, hockey, etc.
ADJECTIVE
▪ brilliant , excellent , fine , good , great , magnificent , outstanding , smart , spectacular , stunning , superb
▪ crucial , important , vital
▪ diving , one-handed , reflex
▪ double
VERB + SAVE
▪ make , produce , pull off
▪
Casillas made some spectacular ~s.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ by , ~ from
▪
some great ~s from both goalkeepers
II.
verb
1 keep sb/sth safe
ADVERB
▪ single-handedly
▪ possibly , potentially , probably
▪ literally
VERB + SAVE
▪ be able to , can
▪
Nothing could ~ us from disaster.
▪ be unable to
▪ may , might
▪
It's a trick that might just ~ us from total disaster.
▪ help (to) , try to
▪
She helped ~ my career.
▪ battle to , be determined to , be on a mission to , fight to
▪
Doctors battled to ~ the little boy's life.
▪ find a way to , manage to
▪
We managed to ~ the animals from being put down.
PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪
They ~d the paintings from destruction.
PHRASES
▪ an attempt to ~ sth , an effort to ~ sth
▪
a last desperate attempt to ~ his marriage
▪ a battle to ~ sth , a bid to ~ sth , a campaign to ~ sth , a fight to ~ sth
▪ be responsible for saving sb/sth
▪
He is responsible for saving the lives of the aircrew.
▪ beyond saving
▪
The furniture was beyond saving.
2 not spend money
ADVERB
▪ up
▪
I'm saving up to buy a new car.
VERB + SAVE
▪ look to , try to
▪ manage to
PREPOSITION
▪ for
▪
We're trying to ~ up for our honeymoon.
▪ on
▪
They're hoping to ~ on printing costs.
PHRASES
▪ scrimp and ~
▪
We scrimp and ~ to send our children to a private school.
▪ thereby saving
▪
We use video conferencing for our meetings, thereby saving thousands in travel expenses.
3 in football/soccer, hockey, etc.
ADVERB
▪ brilliantly , superbly
▪ bravely , comfortably
Save is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ firefighter
Save is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ bother , ↑ breath , ↑ cash , ↑ civilization , ↑ country , ↑ coupon , ↑ document , ↑ earth , ↑ electricity , ↑ embarrassment , ↑ energy , ↑ environment , ↑ expense , ↑ file , ↑ fuel , ↑ hassle , ↑ honour , ↑ inconvenience , ↑ life , ↑ mankind , ↑ marriage , ↑ money , ↑ neck , ↑ penalty , ↑ place , ↑ planet , ↑ receipt , ↑ republic , ↑ reputation , ↑ sanity , ↑ seat , ↑ setting , ↑ shot , ↑ sight , ↑ soul , ↑ space , ↑ strength , ↑ time , ↑ trouble , ↑ victim , ↑ whale , ↑ wildlife , ↑ world