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spared someone's blushes

spared someone's blushes is the simple past and past participle of spare someone's blushes.

Meaning of spare someone's blushes

Verb

spare someone's blushes (third-person singular simple present spares someone's blushes, present participle sparing someone's blushes, simple past and past participle spared someone's blushes)

  1. (idiomatic) To save someone from embarrassment.
    • He faced us as we assembled for breakfast with a deprecating false modesty in his eyes, as who should say, "I know that I deserve all that you can say, but I pray you to spare my blushes by not saying it." His beard bristled exultantly, his chest was thrown out, and his hand was thrust into the...1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about spared someone's blushes

What is spared someone's blushes the simple past and past participle of?
Spared someone's blushes is the simple past and past participle of spare someone's blushes.

Words near spared someone's blushes in the dictionary

  1. spared
  2. spared a thought for
  3. spared no effort
  4. spared no expense
  5. spared someone the details
  6. spared someone's blushes
  7. spareful
  8. spareless
  9. sparely
  10. spareness
  11. sparenesses

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