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spares someone's blushes

spares someone's blushes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 spares someone's blushes

What is spares someone's blushes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Spares someone's blushes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spare someone's blushes.

Words near spares someone's blushes in the dictionary

  1. spares
  2. spares a thought for
  3. spares no effort
  4. spares no expense
  5. spares someone the details
  6. spares someone's blushes
  7. sparesome
  8. sparest
  9. spareth
  10. sparfloxacin
  11. spargana

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