preserve

[Pre*serveĀ·]

When you preserve something, you maintain its condition, like trying to preserve your good health by exercising regularly and eating right.

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To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

Noun
fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

Noun
a reservation where animals are protected

Noun
a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; "medicine is no longer a male preserve"

Verb
prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh"

Verb
to keep up and reserve for personal or special use; "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"

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Verb
keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the an

Verb
keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

Verb
keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing; "preserve the forest and the lakes"

Verb
maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger; "May God keep you"


v. t.
To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

v. t.
To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.

v. t.
To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.

v. i.
To make preserves.

v. i.
To protect game for purposes of sport.

n.
That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.

n.
A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.


Preserve

Pre*serve" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Preserved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Preserving.] [F. pr'82server, from L. prae before + servare to save, preserve; cf. L. praeservare to observe beforehand. See Serve.] 1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
O Lord, thou preserved man and beast.
Now, good angels preserve the king.
2. To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.
You can not preserve it from tainting.
3. To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence. To preserve game, to protect it from extermination. Syn. -- To keep; save; secure; uphold; sustain; defend; spare; protect; guard; shield. See Keep.

Preserve

Pre*serve", v. i. 1. To make preserves. Shak. 2. To protect game for purposes of sport.

Preserve

Pre*serve", n. 1. That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural. 2. A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.

To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

To make preserves.

That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.

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Usage Examples

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

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Other Usage Examples

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

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