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Preserve

verb

(past & past part. preserved; pres. part. preserving)

1.

Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last. Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, uphold. "Continue the family tradition" , "Carry on the old traditions" Antonym: discontinue.

2.

Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction. Synonyms: conserve, keep up, maintain. "The old lady could not keep up the building" , "Children must be taught to conserve our national heritage" , "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts"

3.

To keep up and reserve for personal or special use. Synonym: save.

4.

Prevent (food) from rotting. Synonym: keep. "Keep potatoes fresh"

5.

Maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger. Synonym: keep.

6.

Keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing.

noun

1.

A domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone.

2.

A reservation where animals are protected.

3.

Fruit preserved by cooking with sugar. Synonyms: conserve, conserves, preserves.

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"Preserve" Quotes from Famous Books

... a very difficult matter to treat a body so as to preserve it, but to cover it with a preparation and with such precision that when it is set you shall see nothing but a stone figure is, of course, only possible ...

— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner

... afraid they would not be as noble as they looked. For at court nearly everyone looks noble, and the Princess Myrtle had learned how easy it is to keep your eyes level, and your head high, and your bearing proud; and how hard it is to preserve a sweet heart like a rose, within the shadow ...

— The Faery Tales of Weir • Anna McClure Sholl

... grass withers away, garden plants are parched up, and the fruit will fall from the tree beneath which she sits." He also says that the menstruating women in Cappadocia were perambulated about the fields to preserve the vegetation from worms and caterpillars. According to Flemming, menstrual blood was believed to be so powerful that the mere touch of a menstruating woman would render vines and all kinds of fruit-trees sterile. Among the indigenous Australians, menstrual ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... considered an improvement upon this. The boiling-furnace is an oven heated to an intense heat by a fire urged with a blast. The cast-iron sides are double, and a constant circulation of water is kept passing through the chamber thus made, in order to preserve the structure from fusion by the heat. The inside is lined with fire-brick covered with metallic ore and slag over the bottom and sides, and then, the oven being charged with the pigs of iron, the heat is let on. The pigs melt, and the oven is filled ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 11, - No. 22, January, 1873 • Various

... are not of vast importance, they preserve to us the intonations of the original inhabitants, who, as far as we know, were the first human beings to gaze upon the face of this ever-glorious ...

— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James

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