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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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Etymology of 'Preserve'

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"Preserve" Quotes from Famous Books

... "to retire is not to flee, and there is no wisdom in waiting when danger outweighs hope, and it is the part of wise men to preserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all in one day; and let me tell you, though I am a clown and a boor, I have got some notion of what they call safe conduct; so repent not of having taken my advice, but mount Rocinante if you can, and if not ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... "God preserve me from it, my dear; he is the most intolerable coxcomb in the world. No, I assure you, I love my husband! You may laugh as you choose; it is true. I know it may seem ridiculous, but consider, he has made my fortune, he is no miser, and he is everything to me, ...

— The Physiology of Marriage, Part III. • Honore de Balzac

... eight assistants, to govern and oversee the guild, and have the custody of the lands and possessions thereof, &c. Queen Elizabeth, in the first year of her reign, recognised all the rights and immunities of the corporation, and in the eighth of her reign an act was passed enabling them to preserve ancient sea-marks, to erect beacons, marks, and signs for the sea, and to grant licenses to mariners during the intervals of their engagements to ply for hire as watermen on the river Thames. This act recites the destruction of steeples, ...

— Smeaton and Lighthouses - A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel • John Smeaton

... animated by religious faith; unless by "religious faith" be meant some vital idea or fervent enthusiasm. The three hundred Spartans who met certain death at Thermopylae died for a religious idea, but not for a theological idea, which is a very different thing. They perished to preserve the integrity of the state to which they belonged. The greatest Athenians were certainly not religious in Professor Flint's sense of the word, and the grand old Roman patriots had scarcely a scintillation of such a religious faith ...

— Arrows of Freethought • George W. Foote

... preserve the rugged appearance that it had formerly, when, in the midst of floating icebergs it sheltered a population of birds within its rocky amphitheatre. Its snow-clad peak had sunk down into a hill from the summit of ...

— Penguin Island • Anatole France

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