Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

life-saving

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English

Syllables: life-sav-ing
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Preserving life; preventing death.

Example Sentences

"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 likely no national holiday honoring him."
"Rizwan, who began his career on the railways in 2015, has risen to national prominence after making an estimated 29 life-saving interventions."

Inflected Forms

lifesaving (alternative)

Questions

What does life-saving mean?: Preserving life; preventing death.

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