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/prəzˈərvd/ /prɪzˈərvd/ /prizˈərvd/ Listen

verb

Preserve v. t. (past & past part. preserved; pres. part. preserving)

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.

Synonyms: To keep; save; secure; uphold; sustain; defend; spare; protect; guard; shield. See Keep.

Preserve v. i.

1.

To make preserves.

2.

To protect game for purposes of sport.

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Etymology of 'Preserved'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Preserved" Quotes from Famous Books

... day in Falmouth Bay, As herring-fishers trawl, The younkers hear the boatswains say How Captain Giles that awful day Preserved the sinking yawl. ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... but men's minds were finite; a catholic acceptance was imperative, and the evils of the present day —a sufficiently sweeping statement—were wholly due to deplorable lapses from such acceptance. The Apostolic teaching must be preserved, since it transcended all modern wanderings after truth. Hell, though not definitely defined in terms of flames, was no less a state of torture (future, by implication) of which fire was but a faint symbol. And he gave them clearly to understand that an unbaptized person ran no inconsiderable ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... exist. I need only here say, upon this topic, that in almost all classes of composition the unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... what is written when we declare that the eternal purpose of God comprehends China as well as Europe and America. He did not create those hundreds of millions of human beings simply to fertilize the soil in which their bodies will decay. He has not preserved China as a nation for nearly half a hundred centuries for nothing. Out of the apparent wreck, the new dispensation will come, is already coming. Frightened men thought that the fall of Rome meant the end of the world, but we can see that it only cleared the way for ...

— An Inevitable Awakening • ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN

... which preserved him. He'd wandered several days until he encountered Emil Grizek and his outfit. By that time he was half-starved and completely delirious. It took a month until he was up ...

— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch

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