Life-saving
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Adjective
- 1 Preserving life; preventing death.
"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."
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More examples"Naloxone is a life-saving drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose."