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セーブする · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Used for voluntarily reducing consumption, holding back impulses, or going easy on something. Often appears as セーブする.

Baseball term: a relief pitcher preserving a lead. Used as a noun.

Computing term: writing data to storage. Used as a noun or セーブする.

〈物もの〉をセーブするto cut down on something
カロリーをセーブするために野や菜さい中ちゅう心しんの食しょく事じにした。
I switched to a vegetable-centered diet to cut down on calories.
ゲームをセーブするto save a video game's progress
ゲームをセーブしてから電でん源げんを切きった。
I saved the game before turning off the power.
〈数かず〉セーブを挙あげるto record a certain number of saves (baseball)
そのピッチャーは今こんシーズン30セーブを挙あげた。
That pitcher racked up 30 saves this season.

節せつ約やくN3sense 1
節約 is a general, formal term for economizing money or resources, while セーブ often describes casually holding back on consumption or effort.
保ほ存ぞんN3sense 3
保存 is the standard Japanese verb for saving or preserving data, while セーブ is the loanword commonly used in gaming and computer contexts for the same action.
抑よく制せいN1sense 1
抑制 means to suppress or hold back an impulse or emotion, whereas セーブ is used more casually for reducing consumption or effort.

浪ろう費ひN1sense 1
浪費 means to waste or squander resources, the opposite of セーブ, which means to hold back or economize.
削さく除じょN3sense 3
削除 means to delete data, the opposite of セーブ, which means to save it.
ロード
In computing and gaming, ロード (loading data in) is the opposite action to セーブ (saving data out).

セーフ
セーフ means 'safe' (e.g. safe in baseball), and sounds similar to セーブ but has a completely different meaning.

Loanword from English 'save'.