conserve
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conserve /kənˈsəːv/
▶verb
- 1 protect from harm or destruction.
■ prevent the wasteful overuse of.
- 2 Physics maintain (a quantity) at a constant overall total.
■ Biochemistry retain (a particular amino acid, nucleotide, or sequence) unchanged in different protein or DNA molecules.
– origin ME: from OFr. conserver (v.), conserve (n.), from L. conservare ‘to preserve’, from con- ‘together’ + servare ‘to keep’.
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