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/prəzˈərv/ /prɪzˈərv/ /prizˈərv/ Listen

verb

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

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."

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."

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.

To make preserves.

To protect game for purposes of sport.

noun

Preserve n.

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

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

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"Preserve" Quotes from Famous Books

... you, Steiner—thank you very much!" Varr was never more disagreeable than on the rare occasions when he chose to be studiously polite. "In return, let me suggest something that has to do with your own best interests. You are employed here to preserve law and order and this is decidedly a matter for your official attention—unless, indeed, you are thinking of resigning from the force on the chance that I may offer you a position as confidential ...

— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston

... been the Furies! Mnemosyne her privilege abuses,— Nothing from her distorting glass secure is. Life is a Sphinx: folk cannot solve her riddles, So they've recourse to spiteful taradiddles, Which they dub "Reminiscences." Kind fate, From, the fool's Memory preserve ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893 • Various

... Irish community. Their laws were composed in their contemporary language, the Bearla Feini, a distinct form of Gaelic. Several nations of the Aryan race are known to have cast into metre or rhythmical prose their laws and such other knowledge as they desired to communicate, preserve, and transmit, before writing came into use. The Irish went further and, for greater facility in committing to memory and retaining there, put their laws into a kind of rhymed verse, of which they may have been the inventors. ...

— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

... Sze, and declares himself in real earnest an astrologer. There are a great many books on astrology, but I have not felt interest enough to preserve many of them which have come in my way. If anything ever had a fair trial, it was astrology. The idea itself is natural enough. A human being, set down on this earth, without any tradition, would probably suspect that the ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... necessary to avoid any encroachment upon the width of the existing quays, which form important lines of communication for vehicular and passenger traffic along each side of the river, and to and from the railway stations. Again, it was necessary to preserve the full existing width of waterway in the river itself, which is sometimes subjected to ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 • Various

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