preserve

[ pri-zurv ]

/ prɪˈzɜrv /

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verb (used with object), pre·served, pre·serv·ing.

to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.

to keep safe from harm or injury; protect or spare.

to keep up; maintain: to preserve historical monuments.

to keep possession of; retain: to preserve one's composure.

to prepare (food or any perishable substance) so as to resist decomposition or fermentation.

to prepare (fruit, vegetables, etc.) by cooking with sugar, pickling, canning, or the like.

to maintain and reserve (game, fish, etc.) for continued survival or for private use, as in hunting or fishing.

verb (used without object), pre·served, pre·serv·ing.

to preserve fruit, vegetables, etc.; make preserves.

to maintain a preserve for game or fish, especially for sport.

noun

something that preserves.

that which is preserved.

Usually preserves. fruit, vegetables, etc., prepared by cooking with sugar.

a place set apart for protection and propagation of game or fish, especially for sport.

Origin of preserve

1325–75; Middle English preserven < Medieval Latin praeservāre to guard (Late Latin: to observe), equivalent to Latin prae- pre- + servāre to watch over, keep, preserve, observe

SYNONYMS FOR preserve

1 conserve.

2 safeguard, shelter, shield.

3 continue, uphold, sustain.

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ANTONYMS FOR preserve

1 destroy.

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synonym study for preserve

2. See defend.

OTHER WORDS FROM preserve

pre·serv·a·ble, adjective pre·serv·a·bil·i·ty, noun pres·er·va·tion

[prez-er-vey-shuhn] /ˌprɛz ərˈveɪ ʃən/, noun pre·serv·er, noun

non·pre·serv·a·ble, adjective non·pres·er·va·tion, noun sem·i·pre·served, adjective un·pre·serv·a·ble, adjective un·pre·served, adjective

Words nearby preserve

presently, presentment, presents, preservationist, preservative, preserve, preset, preset board, preshave, preshrink, preshrunk

Example sentences from the Web for preserved

“The innocence of young people must be preserved at all costs,” said Glees.

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Only after the Confederates surrendered Atlanta 150 years ago did Americans know that the Union would be preserved.

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One skeleton in particular has become famous for the brutal way she died and the ethereal way her body was preserved.

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“We carved out the carcasses and I preserved the skins,” says Kaye.

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He wanted neither his brain nor his body studied or preserved.

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No general, regional name was ever applied to these Indians, but a few individual rancheria names have been preserved.

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Adair then narrated the wonderful way in which he and Tom had been preserved.

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The flagrant impossibility of its serving any other purpose, had preserved it in its pristine splendor.

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The head and two bottles of the blood of St. Januarius are preserved here; the people assert that this blood liquefies every year.

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As a consequence of this, no record has been preserved of the origin of our chief domestic breeds.

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British Dictionary definitions for preserved

preserve

/ (prɪˈzɜːv) /

verb (mainly tr)

to keep safe from danger or harm; protect

to protect from decay or dissolution; maintain to preserve old buildings

to maintain possession of; keep up to preserve a façade of indifference

to prevent from decomposition or chemical change

to prepare (food), as by freezing, drying, or salting, so that it will resist decomposition

to make preserves of (fruit, etc)

to rear and protect (game) in restricted places for hunting or fishing

(intr) to maintain protection and favourable conditions for game in preserves

noun

something that preserves or is preserved

a special area or domain archaeology is the preserve of specialists

(usually plural) fruit, etc, prepared by cooking with sugar

areas where game is reared for private hunting or fishing

Derived forms of preserve

preservable, adjective preservability, noun preservably, adverb preservation (ˌprɛzəˈveɪʃən), noun

preserver, noun

Word Origin for preserve

C14: via Old French, from Late Latin praeservāre literally: to keep safe in advance, from Latin prae- before + servāre to keep safe

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preserve

verb (used with object), pre·served, pre·serv·ing.

verb (used without object), pre·served, pre·serv·ing.

noun

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verb (mainly tr)

noun

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preserve

verb (used with object), pre·served, pre·serv·ing.

verb (used without object), pre·served, pre·serv·ing.

noun

Origin of preserve

SYNONYMS FOR preserve

ANTONYMS FOR preserve

synonym study for preserve

OTHER WORDS FROM preserve

Words nearby preserve

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verb (mainly tr)

noun

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