life-saving
life-saving adjective: preserving life; preventing death.
Adjective
life-saving
- Preserving life; preventing death.
- King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Were it not for the pair of cops who gingerly carried him from Blumstein’s department store and the pair of surgeons who performed lifesaving surgery at Harlem Hospital there would have been no “I Have a Dream” speech and...2014 January 20, Michael Daly, “The Black and White Men Who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2014
- Rizwan, who began his career on the railways in 2015, has risen to national prominence after making an estimated 29 life-saving interventions.2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Rizwan Javed”, in RAIL, number 940, page 58 [concerning suicide prevention]
life-saving meaning in Tamil
life-saving in Tamil
- உயிர் காக்கும்
Forms of life-saving
| alternative form | lifesaving |
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Questions about life-saving
- What does life-saving mean?
- Life-saving means preserving life; preventing death.
- What is life-saving in Tamil?
- Life-saving in Tamil is உயிர் காக்கும். See Life-saving meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is life-saving?
- Life-saving is an adjective.
Words near life-saving in the dictionary
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