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SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
to stop (someone) from dying or being killed : to rescue (someone) who is in terrible danger… See the full definition
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Cambridge Dictionary
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SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE definition | Cambridge English Dictionary
3 weeks ago - SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE meaning: 1. to keep someone from dying: 2. to help someone escape from a difficult or unpleasant situation…. Learn more.
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Why do people say you saved my life when in reality they didn’t save there life Because they die later?

Because you CAN save someone's life. It's situational. If I push you out from in front of a bus, then I saved your life. Saying "I delayed your death" sounds dumb, honestly. In that situation, I did save your life.

Everyone knows everyone dies.

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The writer says designing is as important as it can save user's time, and life is measured in time, so it can save life... ... Oh I just understand it. 'save life' is like 'save money' or 'save time' 'save lives' is like save someone's life...to make him/her live longer More on forum.wordreference.com
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I am so glad this subreddit exists...what the hell does this song mean? How to Save a Life - The Fray.
As a person who has depression, I have always seen this song as a person trying to stage an intervention for a depressed friend who they feel might be suicidal. More on reddit.com
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What knowledge might save your life one day?

If a canker sore in your mouth or on your tongue isn't healing in about 2 weeks, it might not be a canker sore.

I'm going in to surgery today, and they will likely remove 100% of my oral cancer, because of early detection.

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SAVE THE LIFE OF (SOMEONE) Definition & Meaning
The meaning of SAVE THE LIFE OF (SOMEONE) is to stop (someone) from dying or being killed. How to use save the life of (someone) in a sentence.
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Collins Dictionary
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TO SAVE ONE'S LIFE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you say that someone cannot do something to save their life, you are emphasizing that they do it very badly. [informal, emphasis] Winston could not have read the road signs to save his life.
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Cambridge Dictionary
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LIFE-SAVING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
4 days ago - LIFE-SAVING definition: 1. done to prevent someone from dying: 2. actions that can save someone's life when they have…. Learn more.
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Merriam-Webster
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TO SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE Definition & Meaning
The meaning of TO SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE is —used to say that someone is completely unable to do something. How to use to save someone's life in a sentence.
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Wiktionary
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save someone's life - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
To prevent someone from dying. 2025 January 20, Donald Trump, Inaugural Address (2025): Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear, but I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason.
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To save his life - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
Regardless of one's effort, passion, or desire. Used after a negative verb construction to emphasize one's inability to do it. Ugh, this art assignment is so annoying—I can't draw an apple to save my life. Rachel is so selfish!
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To save someone's life - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
Even just one life saved is amazing. ... He said that every blood donor is a hero because an apparently ordinary person when donates blood to save someone's life he emerges as a hero.
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Quora
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What does it mean when someone saves your life? - Quora
Answer (1 of 3): I’ve saved three people I know of: a girl my age caught hold of my leg and then I grabbed her arm when she was being pulled out to sea by a rip tide; my son swallowed a quarter when he was a baby and I did the closest thing to a Heimlich you can safely do; and stopped a woman ...
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Cambridge Dictionary
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CAN'T DO SOMETHING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE - Cambridge English Dictionary
October 29, 2025 - CAN'T DO SOMETHING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE definition: 1. said to mean that you are extremely bad at doing something: 2. said to mean that you are…. Learn more.
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WordReference
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save life vs. save lives | WordReference Forums
January 18, 2021 - I'd say that save lives is "prevent from dying" (what lifeguards and doctors indoor heating in winter do) whereas save life is not a matter of life vs.
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Macmillan Dictionary
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SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE (phrase) definition and synonyms
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save someone's life synonyms with definition
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WordHippo
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What is another word for "save life of"?
Synonyms for save life of include rescue, save, extricate, deliver, free, liberate, release, emancipate, redeem and salvage. Find more similar words at wordhippo.com!
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Reddit
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r/LyricInterpretations on Reddit: I am so glad this subreddit exists...what the hell does this song mean? How to Save a Life - The Fray.
July 28, 2013 -

What's actually happening in this song?

How to Save a Life - The Fray

Step one – you say, "We need to talk."

He walks, you say, "Sit down. It's just a talk."

He smiles politely back at you

You stare politely right on through

Some sort of window to your right

As he goes left and you stay right

Between the lines of fear and blame

And you begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best

'Cause after all you do know best

Try to slip past his defense

Without granting innocence

Lay down a list of what is wrong

The things you've told him all along

Pray to God, he hears you

And I pray to God, he hears you

And where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice

You lower yours and grant him one last choice

Drive until you lose the road

Or break with the ones you've followed

He will do one of two things

He will admit to everything

Or he'll say he's just not the same

And you'll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

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Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

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Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

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Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

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