save it

VERB

wait

Synonyms

STRONGEST

await delay expect hang linger remain stand by stay stick around watch

STRONG

abide anticipate bide dally foresee stall tarry

WEAK

bide one's time cool it fill time hang around hang onto your hat hang out hold back hold everything hold on hold the phone hole up keep shirt on lie in wait lie low look for look forward to mark time put on hold sit tight sit up for stay up for sweat it

Antonyms

STRONGEST

advance go hurry leave rush

STRONG

carry on move

WEAK

carry out do forge forward go ahead

Example Sentences

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Various attempts to save it failed, and authorities had announced they were giving up.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

If this event was such a destructive experience, why save it for the end except to provide a theatrical flourish—and a rather too pat explanation for his troubled life?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

It turns out that it’s hard to convince people to give up $1 today to save it for tomorrow.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Eventually, two diggers were deployed on Thursday to dredge a channel for the whale to swim into deeper water, and rescue teams worked late into the day under floodlights to save it.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

She would save it as her special spending-the-day-with-Jiichan rock.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

save it

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