different between sawed vs saved

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??d
• Homophones: sod (in accents with the cot-caught merger), sword (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

Regular addition of the past tense suffix -ed to saw.

Verb

sawed

1. simple past tense and past participle of saw

Etymology 2

Nonstandard addition of -ed to saw, which is already a strong past tense form of see.

Verb

sawed

1. (dialectal, often humorous) simple past tense of see
   • 1903, Darnley: Or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold:

     "Yes, yes, el Pero! that was himself!" cried the captain; "I sawed him at the ale-house at Penzance with my own eye."

Anagrams

• Dawes, wades

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?vd/

Verb

saved

1. simple past tense and past participle of save

Adjective

saved (not comparable)

1. (Christianity) Rescued from the consequences of sin.
   • 1998, Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

     The second servant, however, was not only not "saved." She could not even be classified as "questing." She was an Anglican who was in the household from charity, having been deserted by her navvy husband and been denied Poor Relief by two parishes, each of whom claimed she was the other's responsibility.

2. retained for future use rather than spent e.g. ?"A penny saved is a penny earned."

Related terms

• saved by the bell

Anagrams

• Vedas, devas, vades