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lifesaving

lifesaving is the alternative form of life-saving.

Meaning of life-saving

Adjective

life-saving

  1. 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

Noun

lifesaving (uncountable)

  1. The act of saving a life, especially from drowning.
    • I’m normally a big fan of lifesaving, but in his case we can make an exception.

Forms of lifesaving

comparativemore lifesaving
superlativemost lifesaving

Origin of lifesaving

From life + saving.

Words formed from lifesaving

Questions about lifesaving

What does lifesaving mean?
Lifesaving means the act of saving a life, especially from drowning.
What is lifesaving the alternative form of?
Lifesaving is the alternative form of life-saving.
What part of speech is lifesaving?
Lifesaving is a noun.

Words near lifesaving in the dictionary

  1. liferoot
  2. lifers
  3. lifes
  4. lifesaver
  5. lifesavers
  6. lifesaving
  7. lifescape
  8. lifescapes
  9. lifeship
  10. lifeships
  11. lifesize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lifesaving (page history and authors); life-saving (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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