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Meaning preserve meaning

What does preserve mean?
Definitions in simple English

preserve Noun

— A hunting preserve is an area of land where hunting is allowed. — A fruit preserve is a jam-like concoction. I love strawberry preserves. My pantry shelves are filled with jars of it!

preserve Verb

— To preserve is to keep something from decay or loss. Jam is preserved in jars. Ancient objects are preserved in the British Museum.

preserve

— verb (= continue, carry on) 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 (= save) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use She saved the old family photographs in a drawer — verb (= conserve, keep up) 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 ancient manuscripts — verb (= keep) prevent (food) from rotting preserved meats keep potatoes fresh — noun a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone medicine is no longer a male preserve — noun a reservation where animals are protected — verb keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing preserve the forest and the lakes — verb (= keep) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger May God keep you — noun (= preserves) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

Synonyms preserve synonyms

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preserve English » English

keep maintain protect conserve save guard retain defend safeguard reserve sustain keep up hold look after uphold store jam Cun take care of shield watch over support pickle can cure continue shelter prop up preserves nature reserve hold up escort cherish care back up withhold watch tend support life spare sanctuary salt retention pot mind keep safely jelly husband harden harbour

Topics preserve topics

What do people use preserve to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Person

Life
Daily life Food Food preparation

Food storage

  • What words refer to preserving food?
    preserve
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals
States Quality Good Decay

Preserve

Conjugation preserve conjugation

How do you conjugate preserve?

preserve · verb

Examples preserve examples

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Simple sentences

Salt helps to preserve food from decay.
We must try to preserve the remains of ancient civilizations.
God preserve us!
In case I don't survive, preserve my brain.
Doctors and nurses must preserve life at all costs.
A group started a campaign to preserve rain forests.
We must preserve birds.
They canned the fruits to preserve them.
Refrigerators help to preserve food.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
We had to smoke our meat to preserve it.
They're trying to preserve the status quo, not to improve.
We need to preserve democracy even with depleted uranium bombs.
Politicians' acts are meant to preserve their hold on power.
Algeria needs to preserve its national identity.

Movie subtitles

Once this bad boy gets going, it's gonna chill your milk, preserve your meat, call your sister, cure hepatitis.
To preserve his alter ego.
We will preserve them.
The two original languages have been deliberately respected in the film's dialogues in order to preserve the power and truthfulness of the remarkable images which are the basis of this movie.
This vision was so vivid and so moving that I determined to gather together all things of beauty and culture that I could and preserve them here against the doom toward which the world is rushing.
You will preserve the fragrance of our history and add to it a touch of your own mind.
While Richard is bent on adventure in foreign lands.. itisourdutyasNormans to preserve the realm.. bygivingloyalsupport to Prince John.
Sounds like a good man. May the Blessed Virgin preserve him!
Heaven preserve us!
The angels and the saints preserve me. and the pickaninny here, keep an eye on him, too.
Preserve us from the dangers of the sea and the violence of the enemy, that we may be a safeguard unto our most gracious sovereign lord, King George, and a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasions.
It can't even exist unless we fight a battle every day to preserve it for our neighbour as well as our self.
Today she's a tremendous force in the battle to preserve and extend democracy.
The saints preserve us, it is!
It's hard for the citizen to preserve his paltry possessions.
Must preserve that schoolgirl complexion.
While Richard is bent on adventure in foreign lands it is our duty as Normans to preserve the realm by giving loyal support to Prince John, the only true defender of the Norman spirit.
Preserve your vaunted British vanity as best you may in this your hour of most humiliating defeat.
Want some of this plum preserve?
Is there some of that preserve?
Heaven preserve you!
We really should preserve it for posterity, except, it's such good crystal and I'd hate to break up the set.
Holy saints preserve us.
Keep and preserve us through the night.
That's the game preserve.
However, I must preserve decision.
It's to preserve the country handed down to us.
His Royal Grace, whom God preserve better than you would wish. cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while. but you must trouble him with lewd complaints.
If only we grown-ups. could preserve their capacity for simple joys and simple beliefs.
May God preserve you from it.
And we've more than enough salt to preserve them.
Mr. President, I would not rule out the chance. to preserve a nucleus of human specimens.
Saints preserve us!

News and current affairs

Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
A well-designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.
What was once the dignified preserve of obviously elite currencies could become the site of messy political battles for elevated status.
These issues remain relevant today, and the establishment of rules that preserve access for all remains as much a public good now as it was then, even though some of the issues are more complex.
The notion promoted by Romney and his boosters that only US military power can preserve world order is deeply reactionary.
They point out that it may be rational for many countries to preserve this institutional framework, even if American power resources decline.
If Saddam is ready to abdicate to preserve his life, he should get that much security, no more.
It was an attempt to preserve the peace (and the security of the relatively weak Austrian Empire) through a coalition of victors upholding shared values.
After all, few political systems can defend against those, like Saudi Arabia's Islamic radicals, who claim that they can preserve the system and its religious values more effectively than the current rulers.
The realization that withdrawal from populated areas, and thus an end to holding another people under permanent occupation, was necessary to preserve the Jewish nature of Israel clearly brought the two of you to the center of Israeli thinking.
Countries need strategies to foster education and innovation just as they need strategies to preserve macroeconomic stability and a healthy business environment.
Just as banks are hoarding cash, households will try to preserve wealth by increasing their saving.
But, while the goal of Chapter 11 is to save the ongoing value of a firm, the goal of the international resolution mechanism should be to preserve the ongoing value of the counterparties of insolvent financial institutions.
It is designed to preserve international financial markets, not the stability of emerging economies on the periphery.
By contrast, the twenty-first century will be informed by the realization that the global ecosystem and its resources, which are indispensable for human survival, are finite, and that this implies an enduring responsibility to preserve what we have.
Even in the most advanced and affluent societies, a vast concentrated effort is needed to preserve even minimal decency: think of locks, security alarms, police, courts, and prisons.
Nor would it be proper, where the gravity and scale of crimes materially differ, to charge all sides in a conflict in order to preserve a false sense of parity.
Last but not least, however, it is important to try to preserve dynamism in the US and European economies through productivity-enhancing measures - for example, by being vigilant about anti-trust policy, and by streamlining and simplifying tax systems.
The US would, of course, need to respond to the conclusion of any trilateral Northeast Asian FTA in order to preserve its own role in global trade - and in the supply chains that dominate the Asian economies.
But this is not inevitable, above all because Aymaras and non-Aymaras, Indians and non-Indians, will continue to work to preserve unity in democracy as the basis for a more just future.
Europe wants to preserve its universal banking model, with banks that serve a broad range of functions, ranging from taking deposits to making small commercial loans to high-level investment-banking activities.

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