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husband

verbCommon GRE wordMore H words

to use or manage resources sparingly and thriftily

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Husband in a sentence

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Marooned for weeks, the sailors carefully husbanded their dwindling supply of water.

Synonyms
conserverationeconomizesave
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Husband (verb) means to use or manage resources sparingly and thriftily
Here is husband used in an example sentence: "Marooned for weeks, the sailors carefully husbanded their dwindling supply of water."
Common synonyms for husband include conserve, ration, economize, save.
Antonyms of husband include squander, waste, dissipate.
Husband is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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