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sparing someone's blushes

sparing someone's blushes is the present participle and gerund 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 sparing someone's blushes

What is sparing someone's blushes the present participle and gerund of?
Sparing someone's blushes is the present participle and gerund of spare someone's blushes.

Words near sparing someone's blushes in the dictionary

  1. sparing
  2. sparing a thought for
  3. sparing no effort
  4. sparing no expense
  5. sparing someone the details
  6. sparing someone's blushes
  7. sparingly
  8. sparingness
  9. sparings
  10. sparite
  11. sparites

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